Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: It is known that many patients with adrenal incidentaloma display altered glucose tolerance. However, to our knowledge, we have no reports of the frequency of adrenal tumor in Japanese type 2 diabetic patients. We investigated the frequency of adrenal tumor in these patients.Subjects: We evaluated the presence of adrenal tumor in 245 Japanese type 2 diabetic patients (mean age 60.8±13.4 years). The patients who were diagnosed malignant...

Although the primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common endocrinological hypertension accounted for approximately 10% of all hypertension population, the subtype classification criteria of adrenal venous samplings (AVS) have been still controversial. Thus, we demonstrated the several different criteria to diagnose the unilateral hyper-aldosteronism (UHA) suspected as adenomas in our series of patients with PA.This study is included 213 AVS performed P...