Excess aldosterone is associated with alterations of myocardial texture in primary aldosteronism

Hypertension

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-27

  Rossi, Gian Paolo ^b,c   Di Bello, Vitantonio ^a   Ganzaroli, Chiara ^b   Sacchetto, Alfredo ^b   Cesari, Maurizio ^b   Bertini, Alessio ^a   Giorgi, Davide ^a   Scognamiglio, Roldano ^b   Mariani, Mario ^a   Pessina, Achille C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aldosterone; Echocardiography; Fibrosis; Hypertension, endocrine; Hypertrophy; Myocardial

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; COLLAGEN; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM ION; RENIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; MALE; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIMARY HYPERALDOSTERONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VIDEODENSITOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; ALDOSTERONE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 0036318106     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000023182.68420.EB     Document Type: Article

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