ea0086p156 | Adrenal and Cardiovascular | SFEBES2022
Watson Alice
, Syme Harriet
, Brown Morris
Primary Hyperaldosteronism (PA) is caused by adrenal tumours or bilateral adrenal hyperplasia (Djajadiningrat-Laanen et al., 2011) causing constitutive aldosterone production. Both germline and somatic mutations have been identified in human PA (Scholl, 2022). The commonest somatic mutations in benign tumours causing PA in humans include KCNJ5, CACNA1D, ATP1A1 and ATP2B3 (Williams et al., 2015). It is hypothesized that analogous somatic mutations arise in fel...