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Hypokalemic rhabdomyolysis in a child with Bartter’s syndrome

Authors: Ivana Pela, Marco Materassi, Daniela Seracini, Giancarlo Lavoratti, Alberto Bettinelli

Published in: Pediatric Nephrology | Issue 8/2005

Abstract

Hypokalemia represents a rare cause of rhabdomyolysis. Some reports have described a few adult patients affected by Bartter’s syndrome and Gitelman’s syndrome with rhabdomyolysis due to severe hypokalemia. We report the first pediatric patient with Bartter’s syndrome in whom rhabdomyolysis developed when her plasma potassium level was less than 2 mEq/l. Prompt intravenous fluid and potassium prevented tubular damage and acute renal failure. We recommend determining serum creatine phosphokinase in all patients affected by Bartter’s syndrome and profound hypokalemia.

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Title: Hypokalemic rhabdomyolysis in a child with Bartter’s syndrome
Authors: Ivana Pela
Marco Materassi
Daniela Seracini
Giancarlo Lavoratti
Alberto Bettinelli
Publication date: 01-08-2005
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Pediatric Nephrology / Issue 8/2005
Print ISSN: 0931-041X
Electronic ISSN: 1432-198X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-005-1916-7

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