… The screening test for primary aldosteronism is benefit for minimizing damage to the patient…
assay, a newly developing method, and prompted its high efficiency in primary aldosteronism …

… The recommended approach to screening for primary aldosteronism (PA) in at-risk populations
… However, lack of assay standardisation mandates the need for method-specific decision …

Background: In our laboratory well-defined reference values for the screening test and
confirmation test used in the diagnosis of primary aldosteronism were lacking. In this study we …

… The inter- and intra-assay coefficients of variation (CV) of the PAC assay were 15.7 and 5.4…
The inter- and intra-assay CV of the PRC assay were 5.0 and 3.6% at low concentrations and …

Primary aldosteronism (PAL) is gaining recognition as an … of widely differing conditions of
assay) plasma renin activity (PRA… More reproducible assays are essential at this critical time for …

… aldosterone, meaning that all assays, whether commercial or lab … Furthermore, both PRA and
DRC assays are vulnerable to … PRA and DRC (mass assays) are both widely used methods …

… diagnosis of primary aldosteronism (PA). In Japan, although PAC and ARC are measured by
radioimmunoassay and immunoradiometric assay, … The results of both assays are obtained …

Primary aldosteronism (PA) is a common form of endocrine hypertension previously believed
to account for less than 1% of hypertensive patients. Hypokalemia was considered a …

… that assays on … of “primary aldosteronism” (7), and by the end of that year, at least 30 similar
cases were recognized (8). Importantly, the concept of primary vs secondary aldosteronism …

… to diagnose primary aldosteronism. The biochemical diagnosis of primary aldosteronism has
… Plasma renin activity was suppressed below the limits of sensitivity of the assay in many but …