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Medical Management of Phaeochromocytoma in Pregnancy
Author(s) -
Oliver M. D.,
Brownjohn A. M.,
Vinall P. S.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1990.tb03230.x
Subject(s) - medicine , secondary hypertension , pregnancy , preeclampsia , renal artery stenosis , pheochromocytoma , coarctation of the aorta , stenosis , obstetrics , renal artery , radiology , surgery , aorta , pathology , kidney , blood pressure , genetics , biology
EDITORIAL COMMENT:The 2 papers in this issue of the journal on secondary hypertension amenable to treatment were accepted for publication to remind readers that patients with hypertension, especially in early pregnancy when pregnancy‐included hypertension is a less likely cause, require investigation to exclude the rare curable causes — renal artery stenosis, coarctation of the aorta, phaeochromocytoma, Conn syndrome. Case 1 in this paper highlights the need to investigate thoroughly cases of recurrent preeclampsia despite the fact that hypertension settles between pregnancies. The need for localizing the tumour necessitates a separate operation postpartum. Not all phaeochromocytomas are in the adrenal gland; localization therefore requires nuclear medicine scanning and CT scanning .