Open AccessAn Interventionist’s Guide to Endocrine Consultations
Author(s) -
Eric J. Monroe,
Benjamin Carney,
Christopher R. Ingraham,
Guy E. Johnson,
Karim Valji
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
radiographics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.866
H-Index - 172
eISSN - 1527-1323
pISSN - 0271-5333
DOI - 10.1148/rg.2017160102
Subject(s) - medicine , endocrine system , hormone , sampling (signal processing) , intensive care medicine , bioinformatics , medical physics , filter (signal processing) , computer science , computer vision , biology
Endocrinopathies are a heterogeneous group of disorders often resulting from pathologic sources of hormone production. When the clinical scenario, laboratory testing, and noninvasive imaging fail to aid confident identification of the source of hormone excess, endocrine venous sampling may localize obscure lesions to guide subsequent treatment. Knowledge of basic hormone signaling pathways, common pathophysiologic disruptions of these pathways, and serologic evaluation fosters informed conversations with referring physicians and effective patient selection. Success in the angiography suite requires familiarity with normal and variant anatomy of the multiple organs of the endocrine system, patient preparation, stimulation and sampling techniques, specimen handling, and results interpretation. © RSNA, 2017.