Secondary hypertension: A rare cause

A 13-year-old, previously asymptomatic girl was admitted with features of tuberculous meningitis. She was found to be hypertensive and further investigations revealed an extra-adrenal paraganglioma. Tuberculous meningitis and paraganglioma could be chance associations. Paraganglioma is a very rare a...

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Autores principales: Grace, Mary, Cheruvathur, Paul, Sinni, Sasi, L.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3079871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584168
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.77586
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author Grace, Mary
Cheruvathur, Paul
Sinni,
Sasi, L.
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description A 13-year-old, previously asymptomatic girl was admitted with features of tuberculous meningitis. She was found to be hypertensive and further investigations revealed an extra-adrenal paraganglioma. Tuberculous meningitis and paraganglioma could be chance associations. Paraganglioma is a very rare and potentially lethal cause of secondary hypertension. We are reporting a very rare disease, which has come to light in a most unexpected manner.
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spelling pubmed-30798712011-05-16 Secondary hypertension: A rare cause Grace, Mary Cheruvathur, Paul Sinni, Sasi, L. Indian J Endocrinol Metab Case Report A 13-year-old, previously asymptomatic girl was admitted with features of tuberculous meningitis. She was found to be hypertensive and further investigations revealed an extra-adrenal paraganglioma. Tuberculous meningitis and paraganglioma could be chance associations. Paraganglioma is a very rare and potentially lethal cause of secondary hypertension. We are reporting a very rare disease, which has come to light in a most unexpected manner. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3079871/ /pubmed/21584168 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.77586 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Secondary hypertension: A rare cause
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3079871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584168
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.77586
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