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Limited diagnostic utility of partially successful adrenal vein sampling for primary aldosteronism subtyping

Author(s) -

Tomaž Kocjan,

Gaj Vidmar,

Rok Vrckovnik,

Milenko Stankovič

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

endokrynologia polska

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.413

H-Index - 27

eISSN - 2299-8306

pISSN - 0423-104X

DOI - 10.5603/ep.a2021.0030

Subject(s) - primary aldosteronism , medicine , adrenalectomy , inferior vena cava , cohort , interquartile range , radiology , retrospective cohort study , surgery , aldosterone

Failure of adrenal vein sampling (AVS) due to difficult cannulation of the right adrenal vein (AV) frequently precludes subtyping of patients with primary aldosteronism (PA) before adrenalectomy. According to a recent study, lateralized PA could be accurately predicted from partial AVS data based on the gradient of the aldosterone-to-cortisol ratios (ACR) between left AV and inferior vena cava (IVC) (LAV/IVC index). We aimed to validate the diagnostic utility of this index for PA subtyping in our cohort.

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