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ea0056p46 | Adrenal cortex (to include Cushing's) | ECE2018

The measurement of the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system in patients with adrenal tumors with arterial hypertension

Romanova Natalia , Platonova Nadezhda , Molashenko Natalia , Nikankina Larisa , Troshina Ekaterina

Introduction: This problem has a major social and medical significance. The prevalence of secondary endocrine hypertension is around 40%, of which primary aldosteronism is up to 15% and is usually developed at working age. Despite of improvement of diagnostical two-step method of finding primary aldosteronism, none of these test results can be considered reliable because of false positive and false negative results. ThatÂ’s why the problem of endocrine hypertension diagnos...