lesson of the month

FA Mir, MJ Brown, DS Appleton - Clinical medicine, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lesson of the month Page 1 530 Clinical Medicine Vol 7 No 5 October 2007 . LESSON OF THE
MONTH FA Mir BSc MBBS MRCP, Specialist Registrar MJ Brown MA MSc MD FRCP, Professor …

Delay in the diagnosis of Conn's syndrome: a single-center experience over 30 years

TS Dhanjal, DG Beevers - Hypertension, 2008 - Am Heart Assoc
The study reported by Rossi et al1 addressed predictors of outcome in aldosterone-
producing adenoma (APA) patients postadrenalectomy. The time-dependent process of …

Is primary aldosteronism underdiagnosed in clinical practice?

B Fiquet‐Kempf, P Launay‐Mignot, G Bobrie, PF Plouin - 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Primary aldosteronism is a syndrome consisting of hypertension, suppressed renin activity
or concentration and high aldosterone levels in plasma or urine. The main steps in …

[HTML][HTML] Primary aldosteronism: A collaborative approach for diagnosis in hypertensive patients

T Mak - clinicallabs.com.au
Primary aldosteronism (PA), also known as Conn's syndrome, is autonomous secretion of
aldosterone by a tumour or hyperplasia of the adrenal glands resulting in hypertension. This …

[PDF][PDF] CONN'S SYNDROME-ROLE AS A SECONDARY CAUSE OF ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION

VM dos Santos, LAM Santos, TAM Sugai - Brasília Med, 2024 - rbm.org.br
We read the article by Lopes MNSC et al., published in this Journal focusing the clinical,
physio pathological, and management aspects of a secondary arterial hypertension (AH) …

Primary aldosteronism: current knowledge and controversies in Conn's syndrome

C Schirpenbach, M Reincke - Nature clinical practice Endocrinology & …, 2007 - nature.com
Primary aldosteronism has been recognized as a common cause of secondary
hypertension, accounting for approximately 10% of the hypertensive population. Screening …

Conn's Syndrome

LM Soh - Evidence-Based Endocrine Surgery, 2018 - Springer
Primary aldosteronism was first described by Dr. Jerome Conn in 1955 as a clinical entity of
potassium depletion and hypertension caused by an adrenocortical adenoma [1]. Patients …

Primary aldosteronism

A Ganguly - New England Journal of Medicine, 1998 - Mass Medical Soc
Primary aldosteronism resulting from an adrenocortical adenoma (aldosteronoma), as
described by Conn, 1 is one of a few potentially curable forms of hypertension …

Is there an unrecognized epidemic of primary aldosteronism?(Pro)

DA Calhoun - Hypertension, 2007 - Am Heart Assoc
447 patient basis. Likewise, computed tomography or MRI lacks sufficient sensitivity and
specificity to identify culprit adrenal adenomas. 13 Accordingly, in most cases of PA, adrenal …

The Spectrum from Overt Primary Aldosteronism to Mild Dysregulated Aldosterone Production in Incidentally Discovered Adrenocortical Adenomas

T Uslar, R Olmos, A Burnier, B Sanfuentes, P Böhm… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Background: Incidental adrenocortical adenomas (IA) are common. Current guidelines
suggest screening for primary aldosteronism (PA) only in cases of hypertension or …