Revista de hipertensión: acceso abierto

A Case Report of Thrombotic Microangiopathic Malignant Hypertension

Abstract

Taner Basturk, Özgül Pamukcu, Yener Koc, Tamer Sakaci, Mustafa Sevinc, Tuncay Sahutoglu, Yusuf Yildirim, , Elbis Ahbap and Abdülkadir Unsal

We represented a case of malignant hypertension with thrombotic microangiopathy. There was found no finding revealing renovascular hypertension inspite of high renin and aldosterone levels. The patient responded to aldactone that was administered because of the likelihood of primary aldosteronism regarding the causes of secondary hypertension. We aimed to point out that the laboratory tests may reflect the outcomes of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia; therefore in such circumstances it may be impossible to find out the main reason of hypertension