a woman with normotensive primary hyperaldosteronism

Genetics of primary hyperaldosteronism.

Hypertension is a common medical condition and affects approximately 20% of the population in developed countries. Primary aldosteronism is the most common form of secondary hypertension and affects 8-13% of patients with hypertension. The two most common causes of primary aldosteronism are aldosterone-producing adenoma and bilateral adrenal hyperplasia. Familial hyperaldosteronism types I, II ...

A Normotensive Patient with Primary Aldosteronism

This study was to report a case of normotensive patient with primary aldosteronism who was admitted to our department recently. The patient was a 33-year-old male with right adrenal incidentaloma, but without any symptom. He has no history of hypertension, and blood pressure was normal when measured at multiple time points during hospitalization stay. The 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure promp...

Rhabdomyolysis due to primary hyperaldosteronism.

Rhabdomyolysis may be secondary to trauma, excessive muscle activity, hereditary muscle enzyme defects and other medical causes. Primary hyperaldosteronism is characterised by hypertension, hypokalemia, suppressed plasma renin activity, and increased aldosterone excretion. Rhabdomyolysis is not common in primary hyperaldosteronism. We report here a 42-year-old woman presenting with rhabdomyolys...

Renal calculi in primary hyperaldosteronism.

Increased urinary calcium (Ca++) excretion and the presence of negative Ca++ balance is well documented in primary hyperaldosteronism. However, renal calculi as a major manifestation of this disorder is not previously described. This report describes probably the first patient who presented with renal calculi in association with primary hyperaldosteronism. We believe that primary hyperaldostero...

Elevated serum interleukin 6 levels in normotensive individuals with familial hyperaldosteronism type 1.

Circadian blood pressure variation in hypertensive patients with primary hyperaldosteronism.

A less-than-normal decline in nocturnal blood pressure (BP) has been associated with excessive hypertensive complications. This is concerning because secondary hypertension is often associated with this so-called nondipper BP profile. A nondipping pattern is more frequently found in the presence of pheochromocytoma, Cushing's syndrome, and sleep apnea syndrome, but the prevalence is unclear in ...