Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: At present, there are no studies in which authors report the use of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) to evaluate the differences in myocardial strain between patients with aldosterone-producing adenomas (APAs) and those with idiopathic hyperaldosteronism (IHA) or the improvement in myocardial strain after treatment.Methods: In this study, 71 patients with APA and 51 patients with IHA were prospectively enrolled from the Department of E...

Aldosterone and cortisol coproducing adrenal adenoma is a rare type of primary aldosterone. Previous reports mostly describe single adrenocortical adenomas that simultaneously secrete aldosterone and cortisol. To date, only 7 cases of bilateral adrenocortical adenomas with independent functions of secreting different hormones have been reported in the published English literature. Here, we study an extremely rare case of a left adrenocortical adenoma secreting aldosterone and ...