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  • Title: Response to unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma: effect of potassium levels and angiotensin responsiveness.
    Author: Stowasser M, Klemm SA, Tunny TJ, Storie WJ, Rutherford JC, Gordon RD.
    Journal: Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol; 1994 Apr; 21(4):319-22. PubMed ID: 7923899.
    Abstract:
    1. Normokalaemic primary aldosteronism (PA) masquerades as 'essential hypertension', and 50% of patients with aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA) are normokalaemic at presentation to this unit. 2. Angiotensin-responsive (AII-R) APA is as common as angiotensin-unresponsive (AII-U) APA, and requires adrenal venous sampling for differentiation from bilateral adrenal hyperplasia (BAH). 3. From 1981 to 1992, 55 patients with APA underwent unilateral adrenalectomy and were followed up for at least 12 months postoperatively. Hypertension was cured in 55% and improved in the remainder. 4. Cure rate was lower (P < 0.001) in males (11/32, 34%) vs females (19/23, 83%), lower (P < 0.005) in patients over 45 years of age (13/33, 39%) vs those 45 years or younger (17/22, 77%), lower (P < 0.05) in AII-R APA (11/28, 39%) vs AII-U APA (19/27, 70%) and tended to be lower (not significant) in normokalaemic APA (7/17, 41%) vs hypokalaemic APA (23/38, 61%). 5. A higher proportion (P <0.001) of AII-R APA patients were males (23/28, 82%) vs AII-U APA (9/27, 33%), and a higher proportion were from the older age group AII-U APA 13/27, 48%; P < 0.05). Females with AII-U APA who were hypokalaemic had a very high cure rate (16/17, 94%). 6. Since unilateral adrenalectomy cures or improves blood pressure in normokalaemic and AII-R as well as in hypokalaemic and AII-U patients, all hypertensives should be screened for PA, and AII-R APA differentiated from BAH in proven PA.
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