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Pediatrics Renal Tubular And Obstructive Disorders cc94f1c0

An infant with failure to thrive, hypeension, metabolic acidosis and hyperkalemia presents to a clinician. Most probable cause is?

A
Liddle's syndrome
B
Bater's syndrome
C
Gitelman's syndrome
D
Gordon syndrome
High-Yield Explanation
Out of the given causes, hyperkalemia is seen only in Gordon syndrome or familial hyperkalemic hypeension Liddle syndrome: hypeension, hypokalemia & metabolic alkalosis Gitelman's syndrome: hypokalemia & metabolic alkalosis Bater's syndrome: hypokalemia, hypochloremic metabolic alkalosis, hypercalciuria with nephrocalcinosis.

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