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21686346

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-6-20
pubmed:abstractText
A woman in her mid-forties had repeated vomiting and diarrhoea accompanied by muscle weakness soon after she started taking seven different diet pills imported from Thailand. After she had taken the pills for 8 days, respiratory depression progressed rapidly to arrest. Blood tests at the Emergency Department showed severe hypokalaemia with metabolic alkalosis. We diagnosed that she had developed pseudo-Bartter syndrome from the findings based on ionic abnormalities and high renin and aldosterone levels, and hyperplasia of the juxtaglomerular apparatus. A postmortem blood analysis indicated subtherapeutic levels of furosemide. We concluded that the patient died from pseudo-Bartter syndrome, which was triggered by chronic self-administration of furosemide and aggravated by the diet pills. This is the first pseudo-Bartter syndrome autopsy report to show histological localisation of calcification in the kidneys.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1757-790X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
2009
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Autopsy report on pseudo-Bartter syndrome with renal calcification induced by diuretics and diet pills.
pubmed:affiliation
The University of Tokyo, Forensic Medicine, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033 Tokyo, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article