An uncommon cause of hypertension: Paraganglioma revisited

Abstract

A significant number of secondary hypertension could be due to endocrine etiology. The pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma (PGL) syndrome is one among them. We herein report a case of PGL in a young woman, who presented to us with hypertension and its reversal after surgical treatment. In this review, we also discussed in detail about this rare entity.

Keywords

• Hypertension
• paraganglioma
• pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma syndrome (pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma)