Saline-resistant metabolic alkalosis, severe hypokalemia and hypertension in a 74-year-old woman

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 66-70

  Rezkalla, L ^a   Borra, S ^a,b  

^a KINGSBROOK JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Hypokalemic alkalosis; Liddle's syndrome

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE; TRIAMTERENE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEHYDRATION; DISORDERS OF ACID BASE BALANCE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; LIDDLE SYNDROME; METABOLIC ALKALOSIS;

AGED; ALKALOSIS; DIURETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; TRIAMTERENE;

EID: 0033955605     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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