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Hillel J. Gitelman
American physician.
Associated eponyms:
Bartter's syndrome
Hyperplasia of the juxtaglomerular cells of the kidney, hypokalemic alkalosis, and hyperaldosteronism, stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system and the kallikrin-krinin system, without oedema and with normal blood pressure.
Gitelman's syndrome
A variant of Bartter's syndrome characterized by hypokalaemia, hypomagnesaemia and hypocalcuria.
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