Ambulatory fludrocortisone suppression testing for primary aldosteronism has similar accuracy compared with in-patient fludrocortisone suppression testing but with significantly lower health care ...

The seated saline suppression test couldn't discriminate between patients with suspected primary aldosteronism who would and would not respond to treatment. Most patients responded to treatment, and ...

Among patients with primary aldosteronism undergoing adrenal vein sampling, the administration of adrenocorticotropic hormone, or ACTH, before the procedure reduced the incidence of apparent bilateral ...

Overlap in post-SSST aldosterone concentrations measured between treatment responders and nonresponders. (HealthDay News) — The four-hour seated saline suppression test (SSST) is associated with a ...

Screening should include measuring aldosterone and renin and determining the aldosterone-to-renin ratio. (HealthDay News) — All individuals with hypertension should be screened for primary ...

To the Editor: In the editorial on heparin (New England Journal of Medicine August 8, 1968, p. 320) several biologic effects of this drug are enumerated, but its aldosterone-suppressive effect, ...

Our understanding of primary aldosteronism (PA) has changed dramatically in the last few years. While it remains the most common reversible form of hypertension, we are now realizing that it is a ...

Primary hyperaldosteronism -- a condition in which too much of the hormone aldosterone1 is produced by the adrenal glands and can lead to high blood pressure (hypertension) and lower levels of ...

Nine normal volunteer subjects (6 males and 3 females), nineteen to thirty-six years of age, and 5 patients with primary aldosteronism (3 females and 2 males), forty to fifty-two years of age, were ...

Elevated aldosterone levels may contribute to left ventricular (LV) structural remodeling post myocardial infarction (MI) and in patients with advanced heart failure, and aldosterone receptor blockade ...