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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Tayyaba Ali, M.D.[2]

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Historical Perspective

  • Bartter Syndrome was first discovered by Bartter et al.and introduced in a seminal paper in the December issue of the American Journal of Medicine in 1962.
  • Authors in the paper reported two pediatric patients with growth and developmental delay associated with hypokalemic alkalosis and normal blood pressure despite high aldosterone production.
  • The syndrome named after Bartter. This disease was observed in children as well as in adults, females as well as males.[1]

References

  1. Proesmans W (2006). "Threading through the mizmaze of Bartter syndrome". Pediatr Nephrol. 21 (7): 896–902. doi:10.1007/s00467-006-0113-7. PMID 16773399.


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