A Young Patient with Leg Weakness and Hypokalemia-Case Report.

A Young Patient with Leg Weakness and Hypokalemia-Case Report.

Rambam Maimonides Med J. 2018 Feb 01;:1-5

Authors: Andrawus E, Hochberg I, Azzam ZS

Abstract
A 20-year-old female patient was admitted to hospital because of bilateral leg weakness. Laboratory investigation showed metabolic alkalosis and severe hypokalemia. Differential diagnosis included mineralocorticoid or apparent mineralocorticoid excess diseases, with a high aldosterone-to-renin ratio (ARR) after correcting hypokalemia. After confirmatory tests, imaging studies revealed a unilateral adrenocortical adenoma consistent with Conn's disease. Surgery was curative.

PMID: 29514039 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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