Authors
Tracy A Williams, Jacques WM Lenders, Paolo Mulatero, Jacopo Burrello, Marietta Rottenkolber, Christian Adolf, Fumitoshi Satoh, Laurence Amar, Marcus Quinkler, Jaap Deinum, Felix Beuschlein, Kanako K Kitamoto, Uyen Pham, Ryo Morimoto, Hironobu Umakoshi, Aleksander Prejbisz, Tomaz Kocjan, Mitsuhide Naruse, Michael Stowasser, Tetsuo Nishikawa, William F Young, Celso E Gomez-Sanchez, John W Funder, Martin Reincke, Tracy Ann Williams, Richard J Auchus, Detlef K Bartsch, Rene Baudrand, Peyman Björklund, Morris J Brown, Robert M Carey, Cristiana Catena, John M Connell, Tanja Dekkers, Thomas J Fahey, Francesco Fallo, Carlos E Fardella, Gilberta Giacchetti, Giuseppe Giraudo, Per Hellman, Andrzej Januszewicz, Kanako Kiriyama Kitamoto, Gregory A Kline, Franco Mantero, Barbra S Miller, Pierre-François Plouin, Alexander Prejbisz, Christian L Rump, Leonardo A Sechi, Franco Veglio, Jirí Widimský, Holger S Willenberg
Publication date
2017/9/1
Journal
The lancet Diabetes & endocrinology
Volume
5
Issue
9
Pages
689-699
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Background
Although unilateral primary aldosteronism is the most common surgically correctable cause of hypertension, no standard criteria exist to classify surgical outcomes. We aimed to create consensus criteria for clinical and biochemical outcomes and follow-up of adrenalectomy for unilateral primary aldosteronism and apply these criteria to an international cohort to analyse the frequency of remission and identify preoperative determinants of successful outcome.
Methods
The Primary Aldosteronism Surgical Outcome (PASO) study was an international project to develop consensus criteria for outcomes and follow-up of adrenalectomy for unilateral primary aldosteronism. An international panel of 31 experts from 28 centres, including six endocrine surgeons, used the Delphi method to reach consensus. We then retrospectively analysed follow-up data from prospective cohorts for outcome assessment of patients …
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