Hipertensión arterial tratable con glucocorticoides: comunicación de un caso / Glucocorticoid treatable hypertension: report of one case
Rev. méd. Chile
;
125(11): 1361-5, nov. 1997. ilus, tab
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em Espanhol
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ABSTRACT
Lately, a series of hypertensive syndromes of unknown etiology that respond to new forms of therapy, have been described. One of these is glucocorticoid remediable hypertension, that evolves with suppressed plasma renin activity and normal or high serum aldosterone levels, that lead to an aldosterone/plasma renin activity ratio over 30. We report a 45 years old woman with a severe hypertension, despide the use of antihypertensive medications. She had a plasma renin activity of less than 0.3 ng/ml/h, normal serum aldosterone levels (10 ng/ml) and thus a high aldosterone/plasma renin activity ratio. She had normal serum potassium and sodium levels. Due to the bad results of conventional antihypertensive medications, a treatment with dexamethasone was started normalized blood pressure and allowed to discontinue other antihypertensive medications. This type of hypertension must be sought since non conventional treatments could be used for refractory hypertensive syndromes
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Assunto principal:
Glucocorticoides
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Hipertensão
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Adulto
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Feminino
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Humanos
Idioma:
Espanhol
Revista:
Rev. méd. Chile
Assunto da revista:
Medicina
Ano de publicação:
1997
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