Differential diagnosis
Common
- Essential hypertension
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Infrequent
- Renal artery stenosis (secondary to atherosclerosis)
- Primary hyperaldosteronism
- Cocaine
- Chronic kidney disease
- Obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome
- Primary hyperparathyroidism
- HELLP syndrome
- Fibromuscular dysplasia
- Renal cancer
Rare
- Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Phaeochromocytoma
- Eclampsia
- Polycythaemia vera
- Aortic dissection
- Cushing's disease
- IgA nephropathy
- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
- Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
- Minimal change disease
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- Membranous glomerulonephritis
- Acromegaly
- Takayasu's arteritis
- Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
- Wilms' tumour