Arterial hypertension is a highly prevalent disease and its secondary causes must always be kept in mind because the treatment and prognosis differ between these and essential hypertension. Here we present the first reported case in Argentina of a 21-year-old patient with arterial hypertension and hypokalaemia due to a renin-secreting juxtaglomerular cell tumour, which was diagnosed after seven years of development.
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Am J Surg Pathol
December 2024
Department of Pathology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.
Juxtaglomerular cell tumor (JxGCT) is a rare type of renal neoplasm demonstrating morphologic overlap with some mesenchymal tumors such as glomus tumor (GT) and solitary fibrous tumor (SFT). Its oncogenic drivers remain elusive, and only a few cases have been analyzed with modern molecular techniques. In prior studies, loss of chromosomes 9 and 11 appeared to be recurrent.
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November 2024
Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Renin is crucial for blood pressure regulation and electrolyte balance, and its expressing cells arise from Foxd1+ stromal progenitors. However, factors guiding these progenitors toward renin-secreting cell fate remain unclear. Tcf21, a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor, is essential in kidney development.
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November 2024
University of Virginia School of Medicine Inova Campus, Falls Church, Virginia, USA.
Juxtaglomerular cell tumors (JCT) are uncommon renin-secreting tumors of the kidney with cytologic findings of JCT rarely reported. We describe a case of JCT in a 37-year-old man with uncontrolled hypertension that was cured by removal of the tumor via partial nephrectomy. Cytology material was prepared by scraping of the freshly sectioned tumor mass and stained with Diff-Quik and Papanicolaou stains.
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December 2024
Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
BMC Endocr Disord
November 2024
Department of Endocrinology and metabolism, Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital of Jinan University, No. 396, Tong Fu Zhong Rd, Guangzhou, 510220, China.
Background: Adolescents with secondary hyperaldosteronism often present with severe and treatment-resistant hypertension, along with hypokalemia. Renovascular hypertension is frequently caused by renal artery stenosis, primarily due to atherosclerosis and fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD). The presence of an accessory renal artery (ARA) is a common anatomical variation that can contribute to secondary renal vascular hypertension.
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