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Original Source: Pseudoaldosteronism with increased serum cortisol associated with pneumonia, hypouricemia, hypocalcemia, and hypophosphatemia.
We describe here the interesting case of a 73-year-old hypertensive man with pseudoaldosteronism. He had been taking glycyrrhizin at a dose of 75 mg/day for 12 years because of mild liver damage, but had never experienced any previous symptoms associated with hypokalemia. He was referred to our hospital because of hypokalemic tetraparesis and rhabdomyolysis. At that time, we noted mineralocorticoid excess characterized by hypokalemia due to urinary K loss, exacerbation of hypertension due to increased tubul...
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We describe here the interesting case of a 73-year-old hypertensive man with pseudoaldosteronism. He had been taking glycyrrhizin at a dose of 75 mg/day for 12 years because of mild liver damage, but...
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At the present time, there is no widely agreed definition of postprandial lipaemia (PPL). This lack of a shared definition limits the identification and treatment of patients with exaggerated PPL as w...
Evolution, reproduction and definition of life.
Synthetic theory of evolution is a superior integrative biological theory. Therefore, there is nothing surprising about the fact that multiple attempts of defining life are based on this theory. One o...
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This final rule revises the definition of rare diseases to adopt the definition of a rare disease as promulgated by the National Institutes of Health, Office of Rare Diseases. The rule modification wi...
MOBI: a web server to define and visualize structural mobility in NMR protein ensembles.
MOTIVATION: MOBI is a web server for the identification of structurally mobile regions in NMR protein ensembles. It provides a binary mobility definition that is analogous to the commonly used definit...
