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: Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most frequent form of secondary hypertension, with a high prevalence in resistant hypertension (RH), a condition of insufficient blood pressure (BP) control despite a 3-drug based treatment at full dose, including a diuretic. The prevalence of PAin refractory hypertension (ReH), a condition of persistently elevated BP values despite therapy with 5 drugs, is not known.Objective: To investigate the prevalence o...