Tuberculous abdominal lymphadenopathy causing reversible renovascular hypertension.

ABSTRACT

Renovascular hypertension is an important but not so common cause of hypertension. Rarely the extrinsic compression of renal arteries by retroperitoneal structures may be responsible for hypertension. Lymphadenopathy due to metastasis has been reported to cause renovascular hypertension. The present case reports hypertension which resulted from tubercular abdominal lymphadenopathy in a twenty one years male. The patient was treated with antitubercular medication with which his hypertension also got controlled. An unusual cause of hypertension and a rare complication of tuberculosis is reported.