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A Rare Cause of Hypokalemia in the Emergency Department: Gitelman Syndrome

Abstract

Gonullu Hayriye, Karadas Sevdegul, Sahin Mustafa and Dursun Recep

Gitelman’s syndrome is an autosomal recessively inherited disease with a wide clinical spectrum usually seen in adolescents and adults. Patients have hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis, hypomagnesemia and hypocalciuria together with normal blood pressure. Effect of GS on pregnancy is not known well. In this study, we presented a pregnant woman who experienced seizure due to electrolyte imbalance and diagnosed with Gitelman’s syndrome.

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