Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2017
A 51-year-old woman complains of headache, trembling, paresthesiae, palpitations, increased blood pressure up to 280/160 mm Hg. The day before she experienced exhausting headache, vascular pulsation, palpitations, asphyxia, stomachache, unbearable fear of coming death. The patient paled and broke out in cold sweat. In urine there is increased content of vanillylmandelic acid. What disease causes such clinical presentation in the patient?
Answer options
- Cushing’s disease
- Conn’s syndrome (primary hyperaldosteronism)
- Pheochromocytoma
- Primary hypertension
- Cushing’s syndrome
Correct answer
Pheochromocytoma
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