Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Adrenal vein sampling (AVS) represents the gold standard in the identification of the source of aldosterone hypersecretion in patients with primary aldosteronism (PA). It is a technically demanding procedure and, in some cases, only one adrenal vein is successfully cannulated. Our study aimed to examine the aldosterone/cortisol ratio between the peripheral and adrenal veins in order to determine peripheral/adrenal vein aldosterone/cortisol ratio cut-off value tha...