Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the performance of simple and clinical/imaging-corrected unconventional indices in predicting the selectivity of adrenal vein sampling (AVS) and the lateralization of aldosterone hypersecretion in patients with primary aldosteronism (PA).Methods: Data of all consecutive patients with a proven diagnosis of PA who underwent AVS for subtype differentiation in two Italian referral centers were analyzed retrospectively....

Background: Several studies argued that the cardiovascular evaluation of patients with nonfunctioning adrenal incidentaloma is of particular importance, even if a direct association seems difficult to underline.Objective: We aimed to evaluate the possibility of stratifying cardiometabolic risk through metanephrine levels in patients with incidentally discovered nonfunctioning adrenal adenoma.Design: In this retrospective cross-sect...