Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Prolonged hypoaldosteronism is an uncommon complication following unilateral adrenalectomy for primary aldosteronism. There are only 5 case reports in literature. However, a retrospective series involving 110 patients found that it occurred in 5% of patients. We present our experience with two patients.Case presentation: Patient 1 was a 51-year-old male presenting with a 7-year history of difficult-to-manage hypertension. He was intolerant ...

IntroductionUnilateral PA can be cured with unilateral adrenalectomy. Adrenal vein sampling (AVS) is the current reference test to identify unilateral PA, but it is invasive and technically-difficult. 11C-metomidate PET-CT offers a non-invasive alternative to AVS. We compared the accuracy of AVS and PET-CT in identifying patients with unilateral surgically-curable PA.MethodsIn this prospective multi-centre cl...