History
The condition was first described by researchers from Boston, Massachusetts and Bethesda, Maryland (including Dr Frederic Bartter) in two patients with lung cancer. Criteria were developed by Schwartz and Bartter in 1967 and have remained essentially unchanged since then. The condition is occasionally referred to by the names of the authors of the first report - Schwartz-Bartter syndrome.
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