Secondary hypertension

  • Facts:
    Onset before 30 or after 55 years old
  • Differential Diagnosis:
    Young woman
    OCPs
    Renovascular HTN due to fibrous dysplasia (renal bruits)

    Young man
    Excessive ETOH
    Pheochromocytoma
    Cushing's syndrome
    Conn's syndrome
    PKD

    Elderly patients
    Renovascular HTN due to atherosclerosis



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August 2nd 2010