Bartter Syndrome
A group of inherited salt-wasting kidney tubule disorders, caused by genes such as SLC12A1, KCNJ1, CLCNKB, BSND and CASR, with low potassium, metabolic alkalosis and high urine calcium.
What a diagnosis changes
Knowing guides salt and potassium replacement and monitoring of growth and kidney calcification.
Also known as
Bartter disease; Bartter's syndrome; hypokalemic alkalosis; hypokalemic alkalosis with hypercalciuria; Potassium wasting; renal tubular normotensive hypokalemic alkalosis with hypercalciuria; salt-losing tubular disorder, Henle's loop type; salt-wasting tubulopathy, Henle's loop type
Specific forms also covered
Includes 8 related subtypes ↓Hide subtypes ↑
- Bartter disease type 1
- Bartter disease type 2
- Bartter disease type 3
- Bartter disease type 4A
- Bartter disease type 4B
- Bartter disease type 5
- Bartter syndrome type 4
- Bartter syndrome with hypocalcemia
