ea0029p94 | Adrenal cortex | ICEECE2012
Ichijo T.
, Yoshida E.
, Yamashita K.
, Ouchi H.
, Higa M.
It has been well known the primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common endocrine hypertension, and it is accounted approximately 10% of all hypertensive patients. It is always challenging for physicians which tests we should select for the confirmatory tests for the patients with aldosterone-renin retio (ARR) positive. We analyzed our 83 PA patients for the sensitivity of each confirmatory test.We screened those PA suspicious patients by ARR and we con...