Pseudobartter's syndrome

Pseudobartter's syndrome is a set of clinical symptoms that mimic Bartter's syndrome, but they have a completely different etiology.

In most patients, it is caused by abuse of laxatives (gastrointestinal ion loss is distinguished from renal loss by calliuresis examination - it will be low here) or by abuse of diuretics (we can detect the presence of diuretics in the urine by toxicological analysis ) and by repeated vomiting (on urine testing, chloride levels will be <10 mmol / day ).

The syndrome occurs mainly in young women with anorexia nervosa.

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