"It is named after Jerome W Conn (1907-1994), an American endocrinologist, who described the condition in 1955 4,6. Although it was a Polish physician, Michał Lityński (1906-1989), who first described a case in 1953 6. This is one of many examples of Stigler's law of eponymy, that an eponym is never named after the original discover of a condition 7."
"Conn first described a 34-year-old woman who had "a peculiar constellation of clinical and laboratory signs," including hypertension, hyperaldosteronism, reduced renin, hypokalaemia, hypernatraemia, metabolic alkalosis, and osmotic and neuromuscular symptoms 4. The surgical excision of a 4 cm right adrenal adenoma in this patient corrected all clinical and biochemical problems 4."
"Conn first described a 34-year-old woman who had "a peculiar constellation of clinical and laboratory signs," including hypertension, hyperaldosteronism, reduced renin, hypokalaemia, hypernatraemia, metabolic alkalosis, and osmotic and neuromuscular symptoms 4. The surgical excision of a 4 cm right adrenal adenoma in this patient corrected all clinical and biochemical problems 4."