Pregnancy in inherited hypokalemic salt-losing renal tubular disorder.

Background: The management of inherited hypokalemia has improved and the issue of pregnancy has become important.

Cases: Between 1992 and 2010, five Italian women with the clinical diagnosis of Gitelman syndrome gave birth to a total of six newborns. Pregnancy was uneventful in four women but was complicated by tiredness and tetanic seizures in the fifth woman.