Primary aldosteronism is characterized by aldosterone secretion that is independent of renin and angiotensin II and sodium status. The deleterious effects of primary aldosteronism are …
A Vaidya, GL Hundemer, K Nanba… - American Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We are witnessing a revolution in our understanding of primary aldosteronism (PA). In the past 2 decades, we have learned that PA is a highly prevalent syndrome that is largely …
JB Byrd, AF Turcu, RJ Auchus - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common form of secondary hypertension. In many cases, somatic mutations in ion channels and pumps within adrenal cells initiate the …
Primary aldosteronism is the most common single cause of hypertension and is potentially curable when only one adrenal gland is the culprit. The importance of primary aldosteronism …
R Baudrand, A Vaidya - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
A substantial proportion of patients with hypertension have a low or suppressed renin. This phenotype of low-renin hypertension (LRH) may be the manifestation of inherited genetic …
K Nanba, A Vaidya, WE Rainey - Hypertension, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
The primary physiological regulators of aldosterone production are Ang II, K+, and adrenocorticotropic hormone. Other factors that have been proposed to modulate …
F Ceccato, M Barbot, C Scaroni, M Boscaro - Journal of Endocrinological …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose Adrenal incidentalomas (AIs) are incidentally discovered adrenal masses, during an imaging study undertaken for other reasons than the suspicion of adrenal disease …
Y Sugiura, E Takeo, S Shimma, M Yokota, T Higashi… - …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Primary aldosteronism is a secondary hypertensive disease caused by autonomous aldosterone production that often caused by an aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA) …
N Iwahashi, H Umakoshi, T Seki… - The Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Context The adrenal cortex consists of zona glomerulosa (ZG), fasciculata (ZF), and reticularis. Aldosterone-producing cell clusters (APCCs) that strongly express aldosterone …