Recurrent Syncope, A Rare Presentation Of Gitelman's Syndrome

Sailender09 Oct, 2019Health

Gitelman syndrome, also known as familial hypokalemia-hypomagnesemia, is a rare genetic disorder. A specific defect in kidney function causes the condition. This defect impairs the kidney�s ability to reabsorb salt and causes changes in various electrolyte concentrations as well as contraction of extracellular fluid volume (thus causing symptoms of dehydration). Gitelman syndrome is a milder variant of Bartter syndrome.