Performance of confirmatory tests for diagnosing primary aldosteronism: a systematic review and meta-analysis

AA Leung, CJ Symonds, GL Hundemer… - …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Confirmatory tests are recommended for diagnosing primary aldosteronism,
but the supporting evidence is unclear. Methods: We searched Medline, EMBASE, and the …

Diagnosis of Primary Aldosteronism without Discontinuation of Interfering Antihypertensive Medications

Z Dong, X Song, M Jia, J Chen, Y Zhang, H Yu… - Current Hypertension …, 2025 - Springer
In this review, we propose a management approach that considers the specific effects of
antihypertensive medications on the RAAS axis and the patient's disease phenotype. Based …

Postoperative ACTH-stimulated aldosterone predicts biochemical outcome in primary aldosteronism

D Bruedgam, C Adolf, H Schneider… - European Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Objective Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common surgically curable cause of
hypertension. Unilateral aldosterone-producing adenoma can be treated with …

Development of a prediction score to avoid confirmatory testing in patients with suspected primary aldosteronism

J Burrello, M Amongero, F Buffolo… - The Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Context The diagnostic work-up of primary aldosteronism (PA) includes screening and
confirmation steps. Case confirmation is time-consuming, expensive, and there is no …

Predictive performance of aldosterone-to-renin ratio in the diagnosis of primary aldosteronism in patients with resistant hypertension

F Bioletto, C Lopez, M Bollati, S Arata… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The systematic use of confirmatory tests in the diagnosis of primary
aldosteronism (PA) increases costs, risks and complexity to the diagnostic work-up. In light …

Role of aldosterone and potassium levels in sparing confirmatory tests in primary aldosteronism

H Umakoshi, R Sakamoto, Y Matsuda… - The Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Context The current clinical guidelines suggest that confirmatory tests for primary
aldosteronism (PA) may be excluded in some of patients who have elevated plasma …

Significance of discordant results between confirmatory tests in diagnosis of primary aldosteronism

T Fukumoto, H Umakoshi, M Ogata… - The Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Context Current clinical guidelines recommend confirmation of a positive result in at least
one confirmatory test in the diagnosis of primary aldosteronism (PA). Clinical implication of …

Confirmatory testing of primary aldosteronism with saline infusion test and LC-MS/MS

CT Fuss, K Brohm, M Kurlbaum… - European Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objective Saline infusion testing (SIT) for confirmation of primary aldosteronism (PA) is
based on impaired aldosterone suppression in PA compared to essential hypertension (EH) …

Prediction of unilateral hyperaldosteronism on adrenal vein sampling using captopril challenge test in patients with primary aldosteronism

N Wada, A Miyoshi, H Usubuchi, S Terae… - Endocrine …, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Captopril challenge test (CCT) is a simple and safe confirmatory test for primary
aldosteronism (PA). We investigated the effectiveness of the indices after captopril …

[HTML][HTML] 卡托普利试验对原发性醛固酮增多症诊断价值的初步探讨

士涵陈, 盼雨罗, 叶蓉余 - Journal of Sichuan University (Medical …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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