Diagnostic consistency between computed tomography and adrenal vein sampling of primary aldosteronism : leading to successful curative outcome after adrenalectomy; a retrospective study

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BACKGROUND: Adrenal computed tomography (CT) is a useful tool for locating adrenal lesion in primary aldosteronism (PA) patients. However, adrenal vein sampling (AVS) is considered as a gold standard for subtype diagnosis of PA. The aim of this study was to investigate the consistency of CT and AVS for the diagnosis of PA subtypes and evaluate the concordance of surgical outcomes.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective study included 264 PA patients having both CT and AVS. Diagnostic consistency between CT and AVS was accessed, and clinical and biochemical outcomes were evaluated at 6 months after adrenalectomy.

RESULTS: Of all, 207 (78%) had a CT unilateral lesion, 31 (12%) CT bilateral lesion, and 26 (10%) CT bilateral normal findings. Among the CT unilateral lesion group, 138 (67%) had ipsilateral AVS lateralization. For CT bilateral lesion and bilateral normal, AVS unilateral lateralization was found in 17 (55%) and 2 (8%), respectively. The consistency between CT lesion and AVS lateralization including CT unilateral with AVS ipsilateral, and CT bilateral lesion with AVS bilateral patients was 63.8% (152/238). Of 77 patients with available data out of 138 patients who underwent adrenalectomy with consistency between CT and AVS, the clinical success rate was 96%, for 17 inconsistency patients out of 22 patients who underwent adrenalectomy, the clinical success rate was 94% after adrenalectomy following the lateralization result of AVS.

CONCLUSION: CT is a useful tool to diagnose the adrenal lesion in PA patients. However, AVS is more sufficient to detect the unilateral PA subtype, which could provide curable treatment to surgical candidates of PA such that AVS can identify patients with contralateral PA in CT unilateral lesion and unilateral PA in CT bilateral lesion. The surgical outcome was successful when an adrenalectomy was performed according to the AVS lateralization result.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:110

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International journal of surgery (London, England) - 110(2024), 2 vom: 01. Feb., Seite 839-846

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kim, Byung-Chang [VerfasserIn]
Yoon, Hyun-Ki [VerfasserIn]
Park, Kye Jin [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Gun Ha [VerfasserIn]
Pak, Shin Jeong [VerfasserIn]
Kwon, Douk [VerfasserIn]
Cho, Jae Won [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Won Woong [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Yu-Mi [VerfasserIn]
Koh, Jung-Min [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Seung Hun [VerfasserIn]
Chung, Ki-Wook [VerfasserIn]
Sung, Tae-Yon [VerfasserIn]

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4964P6T9RB
Aldosterone
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Date Completed 19.02.2024

Date Revised 19.02.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1097/JS9.0000000000000850

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NLM364088168