Postgraduate medicine
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Postgraduate medicine · Aug 1984
Case Reports'Essential' hypertension with hypokalemia. Caused by aldosterone-secreting adrenal adenoma.
Primary aldosteronism is a potentially curable cause of hypertension; it occurs in about 1% of hypertensive patients. In the case reported here, persistent hypokalemia developed in a 72-year-old man who had been treated for 13 years for essential hypertension. ⋯ Aldosterone-secreting adenoma of the adrenal gland was diagnosed, and right adrenalectomy was performed. At a six-month follow-up examination, the patient's blood pressure and potassium level were normal.