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Robert C. Packman, MD; Lawrence W. O'Neal, MD (Discussants); Stanford Wessler, MD; Louis V. Avioli, MD (Editors)

JAMA. 1970;212(5):780-784.

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DR. KENT KREISMAN, Junior Assistant Resident in Medicine, the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, and Assistant in Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine: A 23-year-old white man was hospitalized on June 6, 1969, for evaluation of sustained hypertension since the age of 15. There were associated paroxysms of sweating, tachycardia, and occipital headaches in the morning. These episodes had recently increased in frequency and severity despite continued reserpine and diuretic therapy. There was no family history of hypertension, but "two or three" members of the family had died with "kidney disease."

Physical examination revealed a healthy young man with only two significant abnormalities: a blood pressure of 178/120 mm Hg and a slightly enlarged, nontender, thyroid gland. At the time of admission, laboratory tests revealed normal values for the following: hematocrit, white blood cell count (WBC), differential count, urinalysis, fasting blood glucose, electrolytes, alkaline phosphatase, lactic dehydrogenase, serum glutamic oxaloacetic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Medicine, the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, and Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis.

Footnotes
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