Severe syncope and sudden death in children with inborn salt-losing hypokalaemic tubulopathies

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1981-1983

  Cortesi, Cinzia ^a,b   Bettinelli, Alberto ^a,c   Emma, Francesco ^d   Fischbach, Michel ^e   Bertolani, Paolo ^f   Bianchetti, Mario G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SAN GIOVANNI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c A MANZONI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Bartter syndrome; Gitelman syndrome; Hypokalaemia; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BARTTER SYNDROME; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GITELMAN SYNDROME; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; INFANT; KIDNEY TUBULE DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT LOSING NEPHRITIS; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE; VOMITING;

CHILD; DEATH, SUDDEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY TUBULAR NECROSIS, ACUTE; MALE; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; POTASSIUM DEFICIENCY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYNCOPE;

EID: 24044433276     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh893     Document Type: Article

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