Clonidine test
The clonidine test is because blood catecholamines in patients with non-pheochromocytoma hypertension are suppressed and decreased after oral clonidine; while the autonomic catecholamine secretion and release of tumors in patients with pheochromocytoma cannot be suppressed, so blood catecholamine levels are unchanged .
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