[Elevated atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) levels and normotension in Bartter's syndrome in childhood].
The authors describe a case of Bartter's syndrome, a variety of disease in the newborn, and they point out the most specific of the disease symptoms, that is the normal PA in presence of elevated plasma renin activity. So it was necessary to determine the ANP, the values of which, controlled for a period of 18 months, appeared above the normal ones. The authors conclude that this date would better explain the apparently contradictory date of the normotension.
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28a Divisione di Pediatria, Ospedale A. Cardarelli, Napoli, Italia.
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D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor / Q000097:blood*; D001477:Bartter Syndrome / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D001794:Blood Pressure; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans
D009320:Atrial Natriuretic Factor