Gitelman's Syndrome: An unusual cause of Recurrent Attack of Quadriparesis

Gitelman' ’ s syndrome, discovered in 1966 by Gittleman,Graham and Welt, is an autosomal recessive renal tubular disorder and characterized by hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis, hypomagnesaemia, hypocalciuria. This is a rare cause of hypokalemia which has an autosomal recessive inheritance. Here we are reporting a case of a 35 years old lady presented with recurrent attacks of quadriparesis due to hypokalemia and pain in multiple joints. Later we diagnosed the case as Gitelman ’ 's syndrome. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jom.v16i1.22407 J MEDICINE 2015; 16 : 59-60