Unverändert eine Herausforderung - Diagnostik und Therapie der Hypokaliämie

Abstract

hyperaldoster-onism or due to a genetically determined defect of the renal sodium-transporters, for example as in Gitel-man-syndrome. Next to the substitu-tion of potassium, the treatment of the underlying disease is essential; therefore the detection of diagnosis plays an important role when dealing with hypokalemia.