Endocrinology · Endocrinology / Renal tubular disorders
Gitelman syndrome
also: Familial hypokalemia–hypomagnesemia
Thiazide-like tubulopathy with hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia and hypocalciuria.
- Specialty
- Endocrinology
- Subspecialty
- Endocrinology / Renal tubular disorders
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected equally; Children: yes, late childhood or adulthood
- Gene(s) involved
- CLCNKB, SLC12A3
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Familial hypokalemia–hypomagnesemia
Etiology & mechanism
Loss of the distal sodium chloride cotransporter.
Gene(s) involved (2)
Symptoms & signs (9)
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