Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenal venous sampling plays a central role in discriminating between unilateral (mostly aldosterone-producing adenoma) and bilateral adrenal disease (mostly bilateral hyperplasia) in primary aldosteronism. Although computed tomography or magnetic resonance are used to visualize adrenal glands, both method are not sensitive enough to detect small tumors and they are not also specific for autonomous aldosterone production. With increasing age, prevalence of adrenal tumors or n...

Introduction: Primary aldosteronism (PA) may present in younger age and it may so complicate pregnancy if not diagnosed early. Our aim was to identify patients in whom PA was diagnosed after pregnancy and to seek for possible complications during pregnancy.Design of methods: Retrospective analysis of patients with PA.Results: We found nine patients with PA (age at diagnosis 31.9±5 years, hypertension duration 5.9±2.6 year...

Introduction: Paragangliomas are rare neuroendocrine tumors that arise from the extraadrenal paraganglia. Sympathetic paragangliomas usually secrete catecholamines and are located in the sympathetic paravertebral ganglia of thorax, abdomen and pelvis.Case report: We present a 66 year old patient with an incidentally found retroperitoneal mass on spine MRI. An open biopsy was performed (9/15) with the histological finding of benign paraganglioma (accordin...