Deoxycorticosterone producing tumor as a cause of resistant hypertension

Case Rep Med. 2010:2010:372719. doi: 10.1155/2010/372719. Epub 2010 Jun 30.

Abstract

We describe a young woman with longstanding resistant hypertension. Evaluation for renal artery stenosis and primary aldosteronism was unrevealing. In this setting of a suppressed plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC) and a suppressed plasma renin activity (PRA), a differential diagnosis of a deoxycorticosterone (DOC) producing tumor was entertained. Biochemical and imaging studies confirmed this diagnosis. Rare and novel DOC producing tumors are an important cause of resistant hypertension.

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