Like Millions, Beth Suffered High Blood Pressure. So Doctors Took Out a Tiny Gland and Cured Her Overnight... ; Goodhealth Me and My Operation Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy

Daily MailOctober 17, 2006

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MORE than two million Britons have high blood pressure caused by Conn's Syndrome, a disease of the adrenal glands.

Beth Roldan, a 28-year-old nurse from Farnborough in Hampshire, suffered for two years from dangerously high blood pressure before her condition was diagnosed. Here, she tells CHARLOTTE HARDING how a new keyhole operation cured her, while her surgeon explains the procedure.

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Like Millions, Beth Suffered High Blood Pressure. So Doctors Took Out a Tiny Gland and Cured Her Overnight... ; Goodhealth Me and My Operation Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy

THE PATIENT

HAVING always been a healthy person - I don't drink or smoke, and I have a good diet - I was frightened when one day at work just before Christmas 2003, I began suffering from a really painful throbbing headache.

I thought it had to be something to do with my blood pressure so I asked one of my colleagues to test it: it measure...

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