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Nephrology • Electrolyte disorders
What are your next steps when managing patients with suspected Gitelman syndrome for whom genetic testing reveals variants of uncertain significance or novel mutations not well characterized?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
The patient should be treated for Gitelman syndrome if the patient has hypokalemia due to renal potassium wasting, hypomagnesemia due to renal magnesium wasting, elevated renin and aldosterone levels, low or normal blood pressure, metabolic alkalosis with urinary chloride concentration greater than ...
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at UMass Memorial Health
Urine potassium is low though.
Urine potassium is low though.
at UCLA
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