Endocrine Abstracts

Relevance: Due to numerous causes of PA, AVS allows differentiating variant nosological forms of PA. The importance of differential diagnosis is due to the fact that surgery is reasonable only with unilateral variant of PA, while in idiopathic hyperaldosteronism surgery isn’t a method of choice.Purpose: To assess the diagnostic possibilities of using AVS against the background of endogenous stimulation of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) in the ea...