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Will Scans Help Boost Detection of Resistant Hypertension?

A noninvasive imaging method for identifying whether the source of a patient’s primary aldosteronism is from unilateral or bilateral adrenal adenomas worked as well as the standard method, invasive adrenal vein sampling, in a head-to-head comparison with 143 patients. The findings establish that the imaging technique, which radioactively tags aldosterone-producing tissue with the marker 11C-metomidate followed […]