Hypertension and Metabolic Alkalosis

There are diagnoses that would lead to either elevated aldosterone independently. So an example of that would be an aldosterone secreting tumor also called con syndrome where you have an adenoma in the adrenal gland. And then rare syndromes called apparent mineralocorticoid excess. When you don't actually have extra aldosterone but you have a syndrome that mimics that. If I have too much aldosterone it's going to not only give me low potassium levels but also a metabolic alkalosis. The chloride may be high in the urine even though the effective circulating volume is low. Again because they're developing volume depletion and elevated ald testosterone levels which