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Difficult-to-control hypertension due to bilateral aldosterone-producing adrenocortical microadenomas associated with a cortisol-producing adrenal macroadenoma

The patient was a 54-year-old woman who developed a right adrenal tumour, Cushingoid features, elevated levels of cortisol that were not suppressed by 1 nor 8 mg of dexamethasone, and suppression of adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) during treatment for severe hypertension. Computed tomography (CT) reveale...

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Autores principales: Morimoto, R, Kudo, M, Murakami, O, Takase, K, Ishidoya, S, Nakamura, Y, Ishibashi, T, Takahashi, S, Arai, Y, Suzuki, T, Sasano, H, Ito, S, Satoh, F
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3023071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20463748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/jhh.2010.35