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#386 Primary Aldosteronism, MRAs, and Renovascular Hypertension: NephMadness Pod Crawl 2023

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Do You Know Why You Have Resistant Hypertension?

A primary Aldo is the most common reason that we see resistant hypertension in patients. It's excess production inappropriate Aldosterone production by the adrenal gland. About 50% of the time it's due to a nodule that we can remove surgically. And the other 50% ofthe time it needs to be treated with medicines.

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