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Functioning adrenal myelolipoma: A rare cause of hypertension.

[adrenal incidentaloma]

Co-occurrence of adrenal incidentaloma with hypertension calls for evaluation of endocrine causes including pheochromocytoma, Cushing's disease, and primary aldosteronism. We are reporting 40-years-old man who presented with hypertension and adrenal mass. He had elevated metanephrines, histology of resected adrenal mass revealed adrenal myelolipoma, and immuno-histochemistry was positive for chromogranin A. Both his blood pressure and urinary metanephrines returned to normal after surgery. The association of hypertension and adrenal myelolipoma may not be entirely coincidental, as it may be associated with secreting catecholamine. Literature on such an uncommon association is reviewed briefly as well.

Diseases presenting "blood pressure" symptom

  • acute rheumatic fever
  • adrenal incidentaloma
  • alpha-thalassemia
  • cadasil
  • congenital adrenal hyperplasia
  • congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • cushing syndrome
  • fabry disease
  • familial mediterranean fever
  • lymphangioleiomyomatosis
  • pendred syndrome
  • proteus syndrome
  • scrub typhus
  • systemic capillary leak syndrome
  • thoracic outlet syndrome
  • typhoid
  • von hippel-lindau disease
  • werner syndrome

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