Primary aldosteronism: molecular medicine meets public health

EAB Azizan, WM Drake, MJ Brown - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2023 - nature.com
Primary aldosteronism is the most common single cause of hypertension and is potentially
curable when only one adrenal gland is the culprit. The importance of primary aldosteronism …

[11C]metomidate PET-CT versus adrenal vein sampling for diagnosing surgically curable primary aldosteronism: a prospective, within-patient trial

X Wu, R Senanayake, E Goodchild, WA Bashari… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Primary aldosteronism (PA) due to a unilateral aldosterone-producing adenoma is a
common cause of hypertension. This can be cured, or greatly improved, by adrenal surgery …

Somatic mutations of GNA11 and GNAQ in CTNNB1-mutant aldosterone-producing adenomas presenting in puberty, pregnancy or menopause

J Zhou, EAB Azizan, CP Cabrera, FL Fernandes-Rosa… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Most aldosterone-producing adenomas (APAs) have gain-of-function somatic mutations of
ion channels or transporters. However, their frequency in aldosterone-producing cell …

Pathogenesis of primary aldosteronism: impact on clinical outcome

LS Santana, AG Guimaraes, MQ Almeida - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common form of secondary arterial hypertension,
with a prevalence of approximately 20% in patients with resistant hypertension. In the last …

Primary aldosteronism: KCNJ5 mutations and adrenocortical cell growth

Y Yang, CE Gomez-Sanchez, D Jaquin… - …, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Aldosterone-producing adenomas with somatic mutations in the KCNJ5 G-protein–coupled
inwardly rectifying potassium channel are a cause of primary aldosteronism. These …

Update on genetics of primary aldosteronism

K Itcho, K Oki, H Ohno, M Yoneda - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common form of secondary hypertension, with a
prevalence of 5–10% among patients with hypertension. PA is mainly classified into two …

CACNA1D-Related Channelopathies: From Hypertension to Autism

NJ Ortner - … -gated Ca2+ Channels: Pharmacology, Modulation and …, 2023 - Springer
Tightly controlled Ca2+ influx through voltage-gated Ca2+ channels (Cavs) is indispensable
for proper physiological function. Thus, it is not surprising that Cav loss and/or gain of …

Transcriptomics, epigenetics, and metabolomics of primary aldosteronism

A Spyroglou, GP Piaditis, G Kaltsas, KI Alexandraki - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Improvement in the understanding of the development of primary
aldosteronism, the most common cause of endocrine hypertension and mainly caused by …

Approaches to gene mutation analysis using formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded adrenal tumor tissue from patients with primary aldosteronism

K Nanba, WE Rainey, AM Udager - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Aldosterone production is physiologically under the control of circulating potassium and
angiotensin II as well as adrenocorticotropic hormone and other secretagogues such as …

Targeted RNAseq of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue to differentiate among benign and malignant adrenal cortical tumors

SW Plaska, CJ Liu, JS Lim, J Rege… - Hormone and …, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
Lack of routine fresh or frozen tissue is a barrier to widespread transcriptomic analysis of
adrenal cortical tumors and an impediment to translational research in endocrinology and …