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Rare cause of severe hypertension in a young woman

Colin G Perry1, E Marie Freel2, Patrick O'Dwyer2

  • 1From the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences (E.M.F., A.F.D.) and School of Medicine (C.G.P., P.O'D.), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom; Department of Medicine, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada (E.L.S.); Director's Research Group, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia (G.L.J.); and Department of Cardiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium (M.D.B.). colin.perry@nhs.net.

Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)
|November 12, 2014
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