Doctors in Bangladesh reported a case of Bartter Syndrome in which symptoms were unfamiliar to earlier reported ones. This clinical case suggested two take-home messages, recurrent hypokalemia in a young patient without the presence of diuretic or laxative abuse should trigger the possibility of Bartter syndrome in clinicians, and a high degree of clinical suspicion coupled with a timely diagnosis with judicious treatment use can improve the prognosis and prevent various complication associated with Bartter syndrome.
Bartter syndrome, originally explained by Bartter and colleagues, represents a set of closely related, autosomal recessive renal tubular disorders characterized by hypokalemia, hypochloremia, metabolic alkalosis, and hyperreninemia with normal blood pressure. History In this case, a 19-year-old student was admitted with an increased frequency of micturition since the age of…
