It's a shame more people don't know about this operation,' she said.
'I feel the healthiest I've felt in a long time. Mrs Doel attended Greenslopes Hospital just before Christmas and following a series of tests and consultations with Professor Gordon, a tumour was discovered on one of her adrenal glands.Īn operation on January 22 this year to remove the adrenal through keyhole surgery has returned her blood pressure and life to normal, she said. She said the worry made caring for her young children, running her small clothing business and helping husband Grant with their cattle and wheat farm very difficult.Īfter nearly five months of no explanation for her condition or blood pressure improvement, Mrs Doel said she was told about Professor Gordon's work by a family friend at a school speech night. She was eventually placed on medication and forced to visit a doctor or the local hospital for blood pressure checks every few days. Mrs Doel, of Baradine in New South Wales, said doctors were baffled when her blood pressure soared and remained very high following the birth of her fourth child, Luke, in September 1996. The new operation - bringing immediate improvement for certain high blood pressure patients - has now been performed more than 100 times making Brisbane the leading centre world-wide. Their technique builds on the work of Professor Richard Gordon, head of the University's Medicine Department at Greenslopes Hospital and the Hospital Hypertension Unit, who for 25 years has studied high blood pressure caused by adrenal gland malfunction - otherwise known as 'primary aldosteronism'. University of Queensland Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery John Rutherford and Greenslopes Hospital Operating Theatre Sister Elaine Heffernan have painstakingly developed laparoscopic or keyhole surgery for removing adrenal glands since 1993. Told by a doctor she was a 'walking time bomb' in that her high blood pressure could result in a stroke at any moment, LeeAnne Doel says her life has returned to normal thanks to a new operation to remove an adrenal gland.
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