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	<description>Information and Support for Bartter and Gitelman Syndrome</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 uterus) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barttersite.org/what-is-antenatal-bartter-syndrome/</link>
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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.   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barttersite.org/what-is-gitelmans-syndrome/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://barttersite.org/antenatal-bartter-syndrome-information-for-healthcare-workers/</link>
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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, renal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barttersite.org/gitelman-syndrome-information-for-healthcare-workers/</link>
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		<title>Gitelman Syndrome, Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gitelman syndrome

Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands,
 Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2008, 			 3:22doi:10.1186/1750-1172-3-22
Nine VAM Knoers and Elena N Levtchenko,

The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.ojrd.com/content/3/1/22
© 						 2008 Knoers and Levtchenko; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
 This is an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barttersite.org/gitelman-syndrome-orphanet/</link>
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		<title>Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Index of suspicion. Case 3. Hypokalemic periodic paralysis
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 pediatrician might be expected to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barttersite.org/hypokalemic-periodic-paralysis/</link>
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		<title>Hypokalemia, or Low Potassium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Shawna Kopchu R.N. 
Hypokalemia refers to a below normal serum potassium concentration. It usually indicates a real deficit in total potassium stores; however, it may occur in patients having normal potassium stores when alkalosis is present (since alkalosis causes a temporary shift of serum potassium into the cells).
Hypokalemia is frequently encountered in clinical medicine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barttersite.org/hypokalemia-or-low-potassium/</link>
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		<title>Gitelman Disease Associated with Growth Hormone Deficiency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gitelman disease associated with growth hormone deficiency, disturbances in vasopressin secretion and empty sella: a new hereditary renal tubular-pituitary syndrome?
Gitelman disease was diagnosed in two unrelated children with hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis and growth failure (a boy and a girl aged 7 mo and 9.5 y, respectively, at clinical presentation) on the basis of mutations detected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barttersite.org/gitelman-disease-associated-with-growth-hormone-deficiency/</link>
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		<title>Evidence for a tubular defect in the loop of Henle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Impaired response to furosemide in Hyperprostaglandin E syndrome: Evidence for a tubular defect in the loop of Henle
In hyperprostaglandin E syndrome (HPS) renal wasting of electrolytes and water is consistently associated with enhanced synthesis of prostaglandin E2 . In contrast to Bartter or Gitelman syndrome (BS/GS), HPS is characterized by its severe prenatal manifestation, leading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barttersite.org/evidence-for-a-tubular-defect-in-the-loop-of-henle/</link>
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