Posted by BRAINY GROUP on May 31, 2001 at 14:11:43:
the differential diagnosis of hypertension
a) Conn's disease
b) Cushing's disease
c) Co-arctation of the aorta
d) exerbation of chronic hypertension
e) renal artery stenosis
f) carcinoid syndrome
g) essential hypertension
h) phaeochromocytoma
1. a 17 year old girl with hypertension of 160/100 is found to have a femoral pulse delay.
2. a 40 year old with a blood pressure of 180/115 is found to have a loud bruit in his right upper abdomen
3. a 50 year old male complains of flushing , tremor, palpitations. he is found to have a fluctuating blood pressure of 200/120
4. A middle aged woman with a blood pressure of 160/110 is found to have abdominal striae and facial hirsutism
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