Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: In patients with primary aldosteronism (PA) international consensus claim that adrenal venous sampling (AVS) performs better than CT scan in determining lateralization of aldosterone secretion. The SPARTACUS study has however reported similar performances for lateralization by CT scan and AVS in patients with PA and a unilateral adrenal mass. The standard procedure for AVS uses cortisol values to validate the selectivity of catheterization and to normalize the al...