Umber Burhan

HIV Infection Itself may be a Cause of Hypokalemic Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis without Hypergammaglobulinemia

Ghulam Akbar, Ji-An Feng, Naeem Abbas, Sampath Thiruveedi, Geoffrey S. Teehan & Umber Burhan · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2013

Distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) is seen in the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) population in the setting of hypergammaglobulinemia and antiretroviral agents, whereas isolated HIV infection is rarely reported to be associated with dR...