What are the keys to successful adrenal venous sampling (AVS) in patients with primary aldosteronism?

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-17

  Young, William F ^a,b   Stanson, Anthony W ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL VENOUS SAMPLING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; BILATERAL ADRENAL DISEASE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNILATERAL ADRENAL DISEASE;

ADRENAL GLANDS; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERALDOSTERONISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; VEINS;

EID: 58149142671     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2008.03450.x     Document Type: Review

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