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YANES QUESADA, Marelys. Secondary blood hypertension in primary hyperaldosteronism. Rev Cubana Endocrinol [online]. 2014, vol.25, n.3, pp.174-177. ISSN 1561-2953.

Primary hyperaldosteronism is one of the potentially curable secondary blood hypertension forms of endocrine etiology. This disease was firstly described by Jerome Conn in 1955 and characterized by high production of aldosterone with relative autonomy of the renin-angiotensin system. This disease may be suspected in patients with blood hypertension with or without hypokalemia and confirmed with the increase of aldosteron/plasma rennin activity index. The treatment of choice is surgery, but the use of antagonist agents of mineralocorticoids can be another therapeutic alternative before the surgery or when this procedure is not possible.

Palabras clave : hyperaldosteronism; hypertension secondary.

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