Hipertensäo arterial secundário à intoxicaçäo por mercúrio com síndrome clinicolaboratorial simulando feocromocitoma / Hypertension secundary to mercury poisoning with clinical laboratory syndrome simulating pheochromocytoma

ABSTRACT

A 17-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital because of severe hypertension (200/130mmHg), headache, irritability, and sweating, etc. Initial biochemical tests suggestied pheochromocytoma, being treated with nifedipine, clonidine and propranolol. However with report of exposure to mercury vapor, twenty four hour hour urine screening and measurement of blood mercury confirmed intoxication. The patient underment ccourses of checation therapy with dimercaprol (BAL) and penicillamine with remission of symptoms and normalization of hypertension after two months. This case have relevance for current practice regarding similarity between mercury intoxication and hypertension secondary to pheochromocytoma