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		<title>Don&#8217;t Eat Liquorice, if you have Bartter&#8217;s or Gitelman&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t eat liquorice !!! Liqourice is a diuretic that causes potassium loss. You can lose potassium and raise your blood pressure. Read more about it at Wikipedia, or just don&#8217;t eat it.]]></description>
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		<title>Diagnosing Electrolyte Disorders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Algorithms for Diagnosing Some Electrolyte Disorders MILFORD FULOP MD From the Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY. The differential diagnosis of electrolyte disorders has traditionally been framed in terms of pathophysiology, and analysis of clinical problems has usually proceeded in the same way. However, easier access to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Bartter&#8217;s Syndrome?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bartter&#8217;s Syndrome is an inherited defect in the renal tubules that causes low potassium levels, low chloride levels, which in turn causes metabolic alkalosis. Bartter Syndrome, is not a single disorder but rather a set of closely related disorders. These Bartter-like syndromes share many of the same physiologic derangements, but differ with regard to the age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Antenatal Bartter Syndrome ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In contrast to Classic Bartter Syndrome and Gitelman Syndrome, the Antenatal variant of Bartter Syndrome has both the features of metabolic alkalosis (from the low potassium), as well as profound systemic manifestations. Out of all of the variants this form is the most severe. Antenatal Bartter Syndrome is characterized by polyhydraminos (Increased water in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Gitelman&#8217;s Syndrome ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gitelman&#8217;s syndrome is a rare inherited defect in the renal tubule of the kidneys.  This defect causes the kidney to waste magnesium, sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine, instead of reabsorbing it back into the bloodstream.   Urine calcium levels are lower than normal, despite normal serum values.   This syndrome does not cause kidney failure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antenatal Bartter Syndrome, Information for Healthcare Workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In contrast to Classic Bartter Syndrome and Gitelman Syndrome, the Antenatal variant of Bartter Syndrome has both the features of renal tubular hypokalemic alkalosis as well as profound systemic manifestations. Antenatal Bartter Syndrome is characterized by polyhydraminos due to intrauterine polyuria, and premature delivery is common. After birth, life-threatening episodes of fever and dehydration occur [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gitelman Syndrome, Information for Healthcare Workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[History Gitelman&#8217;s Syndrome was discovered in 1966 by Dr Hillel Gitelman. It was discovered that some patients with Bartter&#8217;s showed a different myriad of symptoms. Gitelman&#8217;s syndrome is also a renal salt wasting disorder but the defective tubule is in the thiazide-sensitive Na-Cl cotransporter in the distal convoluted tubule(DCT). Both disorders are associated with hypokalemia, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pediatrics in Review Volume 18 Number 10 October 1997 Copyright 1997 American Academy of Pediatrics This section of Pediatrics in Review reminds clinicians of those conditions that can present in a misleading fashion and require suspicion for early diagnosis. Emphasis has been placed on conditions in which early diagnosis is important and that the general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stress and Magnesium Levels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adrenergic control of plasma magnesium in man. Whyte KF, Addis GJ, Whitesmith R, Reid JL Regulation of magnesium balance is poorly understood. However, hypomagnesaemia has been reported in patients in clinical situations where circulating catecholamines are raised including myocardial infarction, cardiac surgery and insulin-induced hypoglycaemia stress tests. The effects of L-adrenaline infusions, sufficient to achieve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effects of Adrenaline and Exercise on Magnesium Levels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Effects of exogenous catecholamines and exercise on plasma magnesium concentrations. Joborn H, Akerstrom G, Ljunghall S Catecholamines and physical exercise are known to influence the metabolism of several minerals in man, but the effects on magnesium (Mg) have been scarcely investigated. In the present study, infusion of adrenaline (5 micrograms/min for 30 min followed by [...]]]></description>
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