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Volume 346:784-785 March 7, 2002 Number 10
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Aortic Pseudocoarctation Causing Refractory Hypertension

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To the Editor: We report a case of pseudocoarctation of the aorta caused by an intraluminal calcific mass. A 49-year-old woman who smoked and had had hypertension for eight years was evaluated for an intramural aortic hematoma seen on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). She had recently been examined because of uncontrollable hypertension and transient acute renal dysfunction. Magnetic resonance angiography and captopril-augmented renal scanning excluded the presence of renal-artery stenosis, a renal biopsy excluded the presence of parenchymal disease, and tests of urine and plasma excluded the presence of pheochromocytoma, Cushing's syndrome, and Conn's syndrome. The patient also had intermittent . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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N Engl J Med 2002; 347:223, Jul 18, 2002. Correspondence



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