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Approach to Endocrine Hypertension: A Case-Based Discussion.
Curr Hypertens Rep
January 2025
Department of Endocrinology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, 576104, India.
Purpose Of Review: Hypertension remains a major chronic disease morbidity across the world, even in the twenty-first century, affecting ≈40% of the global population, adversely impacting the healthcare budgets in managing the high incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) complications and mortality because of elevated blood pressure (BP). However, evaluation and management of endocrine hypertension are not optimal in clinical practice. With three unique clinical case scenarios, we update the evidence base for diagnostic evaluation and management of endocrine hypertension in this review to inform appropriate day-to-day clinical practice decisions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGa-Pentixafor PET/CT for the assessment of therapeutic outcomes following superselective adrenal arterial embolization in patients with primary aldosteronism.
EJNMMI Res
January 2025
Department of Nuclear Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, NO.1 Youyi Road, Chongqing, 400016, China.
Background: Superselective adrenal artery embolization (SAAE) represents a novel therapeutic strategy for managing primary aldosteronism (PA). Currently, the evaluation of its efficacy is primarily restricted to clinical indicators, with a notable deficiency in imaging evaluation methodologies. In recent years, several studies have investigated the application of Ga-Pentixafor PET/CT for the classification of PA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMineralocorticoid Effects in Cushing's Disease: A Case Report.
Cureus
December 2024
Internal Medicine, Hospital Beatriz Ângelo, Unidade Local de Saúde de Loures/Odivelas, Loures, PRT.
Cushing's syndrome is a rare disease caused due to prolonged exposure to excess glucocorticoids. Although rare, diagnosing Cushing's syndrome is clinically significant as it allows tailored and timely management and significant reduction or even prevention of the comorbidities caused by cortisol excess. This report delineates the presentation of a 44-year-old female with refractory secondary hypertension and severe hypokalaemia, initially thought to be caused by hyperaldosteronism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Hypertension : what's new in 2024].
Rev Med Suisse
January 2025
Service de néphrologie et d'hypertension, Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, 1005 Lausanne.
The major clinical studies in 2024 reviewed in this manuscript will focus on blood pressure measurement, the effect of coffee on the latter, its follow-up in the postpartum period, blood pressure targets for patients at high cardiovascular risk, particularly those with diabetes, and the late onset of primary aldosteronism after a negative initial confirmation test.
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