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Primary aldosteronism management depends on a multitude of factors, and surgical adrenalectomy is generally recommended in ...

A novel imaging approach, 68 Ga-pentixafor PET/CT, has been shown to accurately identify sub-types of primary aldosteronism (an adrenal gland disorder), outperforming traditional methods for diagnosis ...

Preparation of patients with iodine contrast media (ICM) allergy who require adrenal vein sampling (AVS) to establish source of aldosterone excess of their confirmed primary aldosteronism (PA) is ...

In addition to the lateralization index, the presence of adrenal nodules and contralateral suppression improved diagnostic accuracy of surgically curable aldosteronism. Consideration of contralateral ...

For patients allergic to iodine contrast media (ICM), dexamethasone premedication prior to adrenal venous sampling (AVS) is a safe and more effective alternative to prednisone and other approaches ...

Plain radiographs of the abdomen, intravenous urograms and retroperitoneal insufflation of carbon dioxide followed by tomography have all been used in the past to study the adrenal glands, but none ...

We evaluated two patients in whom heparin-induced thrombocytopenia developed after orthopedic surgery, with the delayed-onset type in Patient 1 and the spontaneous type in Patient 2 (Figure 1). The ...