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potassium-losing nephritis — see under nephropathy … Medical dictionary
hypokalemic nephropathy — nephropathy with hypokalemia, interstitial nephritis, swelling and vacuolation of proximal renal tubules, and progressive renal failure, resulting from long term conditions such as oncotic overloading of the kidney filtration mechanisms by sugars … Medical dictionary
Distal renal tubular acidosis — Classification and external resources OMIM 179800 MeSH D000141 … Wikipedia
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