Endocrine Abstracts

A 63-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for examination of three adrenal nodules. She had been diagnosed with hypertension since the age of 40 and prescribed antihypertensive drugs. Then, she was pointed out hypokalemia and bilateral adrenal tumors. She was diagnosed with primary aldosteronism (PA) at another hospital and had been prescribed spironolactone because the localization was not determined despite adrenal vein sampling (AVS) was performed.<p class="abste...

A 77-year-old female had a loss of appetite, severe fatigue and hyponatremia (127–135 mmol/l) for 2 months. She was diagnosed as depression, and was psychiatrically hospitalized. After admission, she was beginning to take antidepressants, but they did not work at all. To examine hyponatremia, endocrinological examination was done, then low plasma ACTH (2.0 pg/ml) and cortisol (1.3 μg/dl) was found. Brain MRI examination showed no remarkable findings in pituitary. We ...