Endocrine System, Human, Hyperaldosteronism (Conn's syndrome)

In 1955, an American internist, Jerome Conn, described a form of high blood pressure associated with hypokalemia and reduced acidity of the blood (alkalosis) in patients who harboured a benign tumour of adrenal glomerulosa cells. These patients were found to have high levels of aldosterone in the circulation, and for most the hypertension and hypokalemia disappeared