PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
ED  - Vidt, Donald G.
ED  - Bakst, Alan
AU  - Emmanuel L. Bravo
TI  - Primary aldosteronism: new approaches to diagnosis and management
DP  - 1993 Sep 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 379--386
VI  - 60
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/60/5/379.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/60/5/379.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1993 Sep 01; 60
AB  - Primary aldosteronism remains a diagnostic challenge. Certain immunoassay techniques, simplified diagnostic testing, and the introduction of sensitive imaging techniques have facilitated the diagnosis, but obstacles that remain include a lack of optimal screening methods, low sensitivity and specificity of current diagnostic tests, and a growing number of etiological subgroups. A rational approach to the diagnosis of primary aldosteronism is described, as is the differentiation of the surgically correctable lesion (adenoma) from the other etiological subgroups.