Curable hypertension.

Hypertens Pregnancy

Department of Renal Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia.

Published: February 2009

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Hypertension due to a reninoma (suspected on the basis of biochemical and clinical features, and exquisite sensitivity of hypertension to angiotensin-converting enzyme [ACE] inhibition, but not visible on imaging) was cured by laparoscopic nephrectomy. Treatment was followed by an uneventful pregnancy.

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