Fibromuscular dysplasia in a middle-aged transgender man: The role of hormones in disease pathogenesis

Fibromuscular dysplasia is an uncommon non-inflammatory arteriopathy. Hormonal factors are believed to play a role in disease pathogenesis given the overwhelming female predominance of this disease. We describe a case of a 56-year-old transgender man on prolonged testosterone therapy diagnosed with...

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Autores principales: Wheat, Heather L, Alencherry, Ben P, Carman, Teresa L, Shishehbor, Mehdi H, Gornik, Heather L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8207260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34178356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X211025922
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author Wheat, Heather L
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Carman, Teresa L
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description Fibromuscular dysplasia is an uncommon non-inflammatory arteriopathy. Hormonal factors are believed to play a role in disease pathogenesis given the overwhelming female predominance of this disease. We describe a case of a 56-year-old transgender man on prolonged testosterone therapy diagnosed with renal fibromuscular dysplasia after presenting with hypertensive urgency.
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spelling pubmed-82072602021-06-25 Fibromuscular dysplasia in a middle-aged transgender man: The role of hormones in disease pathogenesis Wheat, Heather L Alencherry, Ben P Carman, Teresa L Shishehbor, Mehdi H Gornik, Heather L SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report Fibromuscular dysplasia is an uncommon non-inflammatory arteriopathy. Hormonal factors are believed to play a role in disease pathogenesis given the overwhelming female predominance of this disease. We describe a case of a 56-year-old transgender man on prolonged testosterone therapy diagnosed with renal fibromuscular dysplasia after presenting with hypertensive urgency. SAGE Publications 2021-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8207260/ /pubmed/34178356 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X211025922 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Fibromuscular dysplasia in a middle-aged transgender man: The role of hormones in disease pathogenesis
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title_fullStr Fibromuscular dysplasia in a middle-aged transgender man: The role of hormones in disease pathogenesis
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