Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Minimally invasive blood-borne circulating microRNAs might be used for the preoperative differentiation of adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) and adrenocortical adenoma (ACA). Circulating hsa-miR-483-5p is so far the best microRNA biomarker of ACC. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no studies concerning the potential applicability of urinary has-miR-483-5p as a non-invasive biomarker of ACC and its correlation with plasma hsa-miR-483...

Adrenocortical tumors are common, occuring in 5-7% of the population. Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is rare (0.7-2/million/year) and it has a poor prognosis with a five-year survival of less than 30% in advanced stages. The histological differentiation of benign and malignant adrenocortical tumors is challenging.Objectives: To explore the diagnostic utility of multiple microRNAs in various combinations as markers of adrenocortical malignancy by using ar...

Introduction: Primary aldosteronism (PA) is a major cause of secondary hypertension. The two major forms of sporadic PA (aldosterone producing adenoma – APA and bilateral adrenal hyperplasia – BAH) can only be reliably differentiated by adrenal venous sampling (AVS). Several mutations have been described for APA, but the pathogenesis of BAH is poorly elucidated. Differentiation of APA and BAH is clinically pivotal, as their treatment is different. There is no blood-b...