Primary hyperaldosteronism due to an adrenal adenoma in a 14-year-old boy.

Primary hyperaldosteronism due to an adrenal adenoma in a 14-year-old boy.

Conn's syndrome due to an adrenal adenoma is very rare in children. This paper reports a 14-year-old boy with primary hyperaldosteronism due to an adrenal adenoma. His biochemistry data were compatible with either bilateral adrenal hyperplasia or an adrenal adenoma. A dexamethasone test did not suppress aldosterone levels. Venous catheter sampling and 75Se-selenomethylcholesterol scanning sugge...

[Primary hyperaldosteronism due to adrenal adenoma].

Endogenous Cushing's Syndrome with Precocious Puberty in an 8-Year-Old Boy due to a Large Unilateral Adrenal Adenoma

Adrenocortical tumors (ACTs) causing Cushing's syndrome are extremely rare in children and adolescents. Bilateral macronodular adrenocortical disease which is a component of the McCune-Albright syndrome is the most common cause of endogenous Cushing's syndrome. We report the case of a boy with Cushing's syndrome who presented with obesity and growth retardation. The child was hypertensive. The ...

Angiotensin II receptor subtypes on adrenal adenoma in primary hyperaldosteronism.

Patients with an aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA) characteristically fail to show an increase in plasma aldosterone (PA) concentration with maneuvers that increase angiotensin II (Ang II), yet they retain a brisk response of PA to adrenocorticotrophic hormone. Therefore, adrenal Ang II receptor binding was characterized in a patient with APA who had a blocked PA response to Ang II infusion b...

Giant adrenal adenoma with hyperaldosteronism.

1. Adrenal tumor. (A) Abdominal computed tomography showed a large mass with smooth margin, 6.0 cm in diameter, in the left adrenal gland. No sweling of the lymph nodes around the tumor was observed. (B) An adenoma measuring 7.5×6.0×5.5 cm and weighing 122 g with a smooth surface was removed. Its cut surface was golden yelow. (C) HE stain ×20. The adenoma was encapsulated. The adjacent normal a...