[Moot and unsolved problems in diagnosis and surgical treatment of primary hyperaldosteronism (50 years since Conn's syndrome description)].
Personal and fifty-year world experience in diagnosis and treatment of primary hyperaldosteronism (PHA) is analyzed. The following problems are discussed: 1) possibility to use simplified diagnostic algorithm for diagnosis of PHA; 2) possibility to exclude march test from diagnostic algorithm; 3) role of selective venous blood sampling in PHA; 4) Indications for surgical treatment in PHA; 5) validity of surgical procedures for "portalization" of adrenal blood flow.
Vetshev
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Polunin
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GV
D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D000315:Adrenalectomy; D000450:Aldosterone / Q000097:blood; D000465:Algorithms; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D006929:Hyperaldosteronism / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D012083:Renin / Q000097:blood; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D000450:Aldosterone; D012083:Renin