salt-losing syndrome

  • 1salt depletion syndrome — salt losing syndrome vomiting, dehydration, hypotension, and sudden death due to very large sodium losses from the body (salt wasting). It may be seen in abnormal losses of sodium into the urine (as in congenital adrenal hyperplasia,… …

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  • 2salt-losing nephropathy — any intrinsic renal disease causing salt wasting; it usually affects the renal medulla (e.g., medullary cystic disease, polycystic kidney disease, pyelonephritis), resulting in volume depletion and hypotension. See also salt losing syndrome,… …

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  • 3salt-losing defect — see under syndrome …

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  • 4salt wasting — inappropriate sodium excretion in the urine (natriuresis) with hyponatremia and hyperkalemia; see also salt losing syndrome, under syndrome …

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  • 5salt depletion crisis — salt losing crisis see under syndrome …

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  • 6syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …

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  • 7Thorn syndrome — salt losing nephropathy …

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  • 8Thorn syndrome — (thorn) [George Widmer Thorn, American physician, 1906–2004] salt losing nephropathy …

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  • 9Münchausen syndrome by proxy — Classification and external resources DiseasesDB 33167 eMedicine med/3544 …

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  • 10Munchausen syndrome by proxy — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = 33167 ICD10 = ICD9 = ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = med eMedicineTopic = 3544| eMedicine mult = eMedicine2|ped|2742 | MeshID = D016735 Fabricated or induced illness (FII), or… …

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