Deoxycorticosterone Producing Tumor as a Cause of Resistant Hypertension

We describe a young woman with longstanding resistant hypertension. Evaluation for renal artery stenosis and primary aldosteronism was unrevealing. In this setting of a suppressed plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC) and a suppressed plasma renin activity (PRA), a differential diagnosis of a deoxy...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Saurabh, Melendez, Jose, Khanna, Apurv
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2909735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20671982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/372719
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author Gupta, Saurabh
Melendez, Jose
Khanna, Apurv
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description We describe a young woman with longstanding resistant hypertension. Evaluation for renal artery stenosis and primary aldosteronism was unrevealing. In this setting of a suppressed plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC) and a suppressed plasma renin activity (PRA), a differential diagnosis of a deoxycorticosterone (DOC) producing tumor was entertained. Biochemical and imaging studies confirmed this diagnosis. Rare and novel DOC producing tumors are an important cause of resistant hypertension.
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spelling pubmed-29097352010-07-29 Deoxycorticosterone Producing Tumor as a Cause of Resistant Hypertension Gupta, Saurabh Melendez, Jose Khanna, Apurv Case Rep Med Case Report We describe a young woman with longstanding resistant hypertension. Evaluation for renal artery stenosis and primary aldosteronism was unrevealing. In this setting of a suppressed plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC) and a suppressed plasma renin activity (PRA), a differential diagnosis of a deoxycorticosterone (DOC) producing tumor was entertained. Biochemical and imaging studies confirmed this diagnosis. Rare and novel DOC producing tumors are an important cause of resistant hypertension. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2909735/ /pubmed/20671982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/372719 Text en Copyright © 2010 Saurabh Gupta et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gupta, Saurabh
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Deoxycorticosterone Producing Tumor as a Cause of Resistant Hypertension
title Deoxycorticosterone Producing Tumor as a Cause of Resistant Hypertension
title_full Deoxycorticosterone Producing Tumor as a Cause of Resistant Hypertension
title_fullStr Deoxycorticosterone Producing Tumor as a Cause of Resistant Hypertension
title_full_unstemmed Deoxycorticosterone Producing Tumor as a Cause of Resistant Hypertension
title_short Deoxycorticosterone Producing Tumor as a Cause of Resistant Hypertension
title_sort deoxycorticosterone producing tumor as a cause of resistant hypertension
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2909735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20671982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/372719
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