[Crisis of arterial hypertension in patients with primary aldosteronism]

A clinical picture of the disease was analyzed in 55 patients with primary aldosteronism due to adrenal aldosteronoma. A crisis variant of the course in arterial hypertension was detected in 50% of the patients. Its comparison with morphological signs of the adrenals enabled the authors to reveal that the crisis of arterial hypertension was accompanied by adrenal medullary hyperplasia and hyperfunction.