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
Answer is D. 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.