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RICHARD C. SORCE, M.D.; WILLIAM E. WHITSTONE, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1958;102(1):131-133.

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Although the syndrome of primary aldosteronism is now a recognized entity, the occurrence of diabetes in this disease has not been emphasized until recently.^1,2 The clinical picture of periodic muscular weakness, intermittent tetany and paresthesias, polyuria, polydipsia, and hypertension, along with the findings of hypokalemia, hypernatremia, and alkalosis and the demonstration of an aldosterone-secreting tumor of the adrenal, was first described by Conn,³ in 1955. Since then at least 30 cases have been recognized.⁴ Many have been reported in retrospect from autopsy material. McCullagh ¹ and Hewlett et al.² have recently reported three cases of primary aldosteronism in which a diabetic tendency was a prominent feature. It was felt that the diabetes arises as a result of excess aldosterone secretion and is of a very mild variety.¹ It is the purpose of this report to document a case having the clinical and laboratory findings compatible . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Submitted for publication Dec. 9, 1957.

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