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ea0034p341 | Steroids | SFEBES2014

Defining contralateral adrenal suppression in primary aldosteronism: implications for diagnosis and outcome

Kline Gregory , Dias Valerian , So Benny , Harvey Adrian , Pasieka Janice

Unilateral forms of primary aldosteronism (PA) should, by inference, have a contralaterally normal and therefore suppressed adrenal zona glomerulosa. However, there is no agreed definition of expected adrenal suppression. We hypothesized two biochemical definitions of adrenal suppression based upon measurements done during adrenal vein sampling. These were then applied to a PA–AVS-outcomes database to determine whether either definition proved useful for interpretation of...