Adrenal venous sampling is absolutely requisite for definitively diagnosing primary aldosteronism as well as for detecting laterality of the adrenal lesion

Hypertension Research

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1009-1010

  Nishikawa, Tetsuo ^a   Saito, Jun ^a   Omura, Masao ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenal venous sampling; Aldosterone producing adenoma; Idiopathic hyperaldosteronism; Primary aldosteronism

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADRENALECTOMY; ALDOSTERONE RELEASE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROADENOMA; PRIMARY HYPERALDOSTERONISM; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VENOUS BLOOD;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ALDOSTERONE; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERALDOSTERONISM;

EID: 37849047201     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.30.1009     Document Type: Editorial

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