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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2007 22(1):293; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl500
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© The Author [2006]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Eplerenone relieves spironolactone-induced painful gynaecomastia in a patient with primary aldosteronism

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Sir,

Eplerenone is the second oral aldosterone antagonist available for the treatment of essential hypertension and congestive heart failure. Spironolactone, the first aldosterone antagonist, although effective for the above conditions, has progestational and antiandrogenic adverse effects due to its non-specific binding to various steroid receptors.

We report the case of a 54-year-old Caucasian man, who was admitted to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Asterios Karagiannis, Konstantinos Tziomalos, Anna Kakafika, Matilda Florentin and Vassilios Gabriel Athyros

Second Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine
Medical School
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Hippokration Hospital
Thessaloniki
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