[Relationship between types of hypertension and patterns of urinary catecholamine excretion in Sipple's syndrome]

Nihon Naibunpi Gakkai Zasshi. 1992 Jan 20;68(1):39-50. doi: 10.1507/endocrine1927.68.1_39.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

We report here a case of Sipple's syndrome, and we also analyze the relationship between the type of hypertension and urinary excretion of catecholamines in Sipple's syndrome based on the literature in Japan. One hundred and fourteen cases of Sipple's syndrome have been reported in Japan. The hypertension of patients with Sipple's syndrome shows a ratio of fitfull hypertension to continual hypertension of 6 to 1, whereas the ratio is 1 to 1.5 in patients whose pheochromocytoma is not accompanied by Sipple's syndrome. The patients with Sipple's syndrome, being pheochromocytoma can be classified into the adrenaline (U-AD) dominant type and noradrenaline (U-NA) dominant type based on the catecholamine excretion in the urine. The U-AD predominant (U-AD/U-NA greater than 0.4) patients mostly reveal fitfull hypertension, while patients with continual hypertension hardly show U-AD predominant.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / complications
  • Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / urine
  • Adult
  • Catecholamines / urine*
  • Humans
  • Hypertension / etiology*
  • Male
  • Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia*
  • Pheochromocytoma / complications
  • Pheochromocytoma / pathology*
  • Pheochromocytoma / urine
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / pathology

Substances

  • Catecholamines