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Question: Does anyone know about Conn's Syndrome otherwise known as adrenal disease or cushing's? Is it hereditary, this is an illness that causes an overbundance of adreanline and also causes high blood pressure.
Answer: You can get what you are looking for by looking up "Cushing's Disease" and "Conn's Syndrome" on google and go to Wikipedia. Those will tell you everything that you need to know and explain things to you that you might not understand from your doctor. You need to see a doctor if you are not. There are medications.
Question: how many cases of conn,s syndrome are in ireland? conn,s syndrome is a rare adrenal disease.
Answer: It seems there hasn't been a recent publish study of Conn's syndrome in Ireland, or at least it isn't well advertised but the incidence of Conn’s syndrome has been reported as 0.8 per million population per year (Andersen et al. 1988). But this is likely to be a very con-
servative estimate since it is probable that many cases go
undiagnosed.
If you have access to medical journals I'd say you should start the leg work now. If you're simply curious or have it or a relative with it, it should be an easy enough question for the specialist monitoring you.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help but I saw no other answers here so I thought i'd give you something.
Question: Why is there polyuria and excessive thirst in Conn's syndrome?
Answer: Conn's causes increased serum sodium levels. Two ways the body tries to get the sodium levels back into normal range are to increase fluid volume (which dilutes the sodium) and secrete excess sodium through the kidneys. In the body, wherever sodium goes fluid follows, so excreting sodium causes fluid to follow (polyuria). Feeling thirsty is the body's way of getting the extra water it needs to dilute the sodium (polydipsia).
(If you switch glucose for sodium in the above example, you have the reason these symptoms are also present in diabetes)
Question: Does primary aldosteronism(Conn's syndrome) count as an adrenal dysfunction? When no adrenal adenoma is detected in the patient?
Answer: I would say so, this site says "Conn's syndrome is a disease of the adrenal glands . . ." if it is considered a disease, the adrenals would be considered to be dysfunctional.
Question: whats the life expectancy of a person with Conn's syndrome?
Answer: Some articles on the disease....
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=c…
