CHICAGO — Adrenal vein sampling is often touted as a “gold standard” method to select patients for the surgical management of primary aldosteronism; however, for many reasons, its superiority and ...

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 ...

Preparation of patients with iodine contrast media (ICM) allergy who require adrenal vein sampling (AVS) to establish source of aldosterone excess of their confirmed primary aldosteronism (PA) is ...

BOSTON — Screening all resistant-hypertensive patients for primary aldosteronism and surgically treating those who are candidates is cost-effective compared with lifelong medical therapy, a new study ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background: A 50-year-old woman who was complaining of abdominal pain was referred to the endocrine clinic after a small (0.8 cm by 0.8 cm) mass was found in her right adrenal gland on CT examination ...

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