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Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol 44, 292-301, Copyright © 1977 by Endocrine Society

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Metabolic responses to the administration of angiotensin II, K and ACTH in two salt-wasting syndromes

A Rosler, R Theodor, H Boichis, R Gerty, S Ulick, M Alagem, E Tabachinik, B Cohen and D Rabinowitz

Metabolic responses to the administration of Angiotensin II, K and ACTH are described in two salt-wasting syndromes: hypoaldosteronism in Jews from Iran, which is characterized by an enzymic block in the conversion of 18-hydroxycorticosterone to aldosteron; and pseudohypoaldosteronism, a disorder in which aldosterone secretion is high in association with renal tubular unresponsiveness to mineralocorticoids. The response of plasma and urinary aldosterone to K and ACTH is qualitatively normal in hypoaldosteronism; however, infusion of Angiotensin II, in a dose that was pressor and elevated aldosterone levels threefold in control subjects, was only pressor in hypoaldosteronism. In pseudohypoaldosteronism, plasma and urinary aldosterone respond to Angiotensin II, K and ACTH, notwithstanding very high basal hormonal levels.




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