Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Adrenal vein sampling is often touted as a “gold standard” method to select patients for the surgical ...

Among patients with primary aldosteronism undergoing adrenal vein sampling, the administration of adrenocorticotropic hormone, or ACTH, before the procedure reduced the incidence of apparent bilateral ...

Primary aldosteronism typically presents as resistant hypertension and hypokalemia and is the most common form of secondary hypertension, with a prevalence of 1–10% of hypertensive patients in ...

A newly developed 10-minute scan could improve the diagnosis and treatment of suspected primary aldosteronism, a UK pilot ...

Thus, many experts recommend routine adrenal vein sampling for all patients with Conn Syndrome who are otherwise appropriate candidates for adrenalectomy. Through femoral vein access, blood from the ...

The seated saline suppression test couldn't discriminate between patients with suspected primary aldosteronism who would and would not respond to treatment. Most patients responded to treatment, and ...

A novel imaging approach, 68 Ga-pentixafor PET/CT, has been shown to accurately identify sub-types of primary aldosteronism (an adrenal gland disorder), outperforming traditional methods for diagnosis ...

Performance of 68 Ga-pentixafor PET/CT in PA patients with different adrenal micronodules. MIP = maximum-intensity projection; NFN = nonfunctioning nodule. Primary aldosteronism is an endocrine ...

Adrenal metastases were detected in five patients by means of adrenal venography. It is possible to demonstrate very small tumor nodules by the method, but because they can be identified only by ...

In a recent article published in Nature Medicine, researchers performed a prospective within-patient clinical trial, Is Metomidate superior to AVS in predicting ouTComes from adrenalectomy in primary ...

We evaluated two patients in whom heparin-induced thrombocytopenia developed after orthopedic surgery, with the delayed-onset type in Patient 1 and the spontaneous type in Patient 2 (Figure 1). The ...