Endocrine Abstracts

A 53 year old gentleman from Ghana was referred to our clinic for further management of his Conn’s syndrome. This had been diagnosed at another hospital 3 years previously when he presented with hypertension and hypokalaemia on the back of 14 years of poorly controlled hypertension. Serum aldosterone was raised at 3178 pmol/l and serum renin mass was 3.9 mU/l. MRI revealed a 5 mm nodule in the medial limb of the right adrenal gland. He was initially commenced on medical t...