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Supplemental Data and Methods: Subtyping of Primary Aldosteronism in the AVIS-2 Study: Assessment of Selectivity and Lateralisation

Rossitto, Giacomo and Rossi, Gian Paolo and Lenzini, Livia (2019) Supplemental Data and Methods: Subtyping of Primary Aldosteronism in the AVIS-2 Study: Assessment of Selectivity and Lateralisation. [Data Collection]

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Context: Adrenal venous sampling (AVS) is the key test for subtyping primary aldosteronism (PA), but its interpretation varies widely across referral centers and this can adversely affect the management of PA patients. Objectives: To investigate in a real life study the rate of bilateral success, identification of unilateral aldosteronism and blood pressure outcomes in PA subtyped by AVS. Design and settings: in a retrospective analysis of the largest international registry of individual AVS data (AVIS-2 study) we investigated how different cut-off values of the selectivity (SI) and lateralization index (LI) affected rate of bilateral success, identification of unilateral aldosteronism and blood pressure outcomes. Results: AVIS-2 recruited 1625 individual AVS studies performed between 2000 and 2015 in 19 tertiary referral centers. Under unstimulated conditions, the rate of biochemically confirmed bilateral AVS success progressively decreased with increasing SI cut-offs; furthermore, with currently used LI cut-offs the rate of identified unilateral PA leading to adrenalectomy was as low as < 25%. A within-patient pairwise comparison of 402 AVS performed both under unstimulated and cosyntropin-stimulation conditions showed that cosyntropin increased the confirmed rate of bilateral selectivity for SI cutoffs ≥ 2.0, but with reduced lateralization rates (p < 0.001). Post-adrenalectomy outcomes were not improved by use of cosyntropin or more restrictive diagnostic criteria. Conclusion: Commonly used SI and LI cut-offs are associated with disappointingly low rates of biochemically defined AVS success and identified unilateral PA. Evidence-based protocols entailing less restrictive interpretative cut-offs might optimize the clinical use of this costly and invasive test.

DOI: 10.25430/researchdata.cab.unipd.it.00000138
Keywords: primary aldosteronism; hypertension; Adrenal Venous Sampling; selectivity; lateralization; diagnosis
Subjects: Life Sciences > Applied Medical Technologies, Diagnostics, Therapies, and Public Health: Development of treatment of diseases, pharmacology, clinical medicine, regenerative medicine, epidemiology and public for diagnosis, monitoring and tools health > Other medical technologies for diagnosis and monitoring of diseases
Department: Departments > Dipartimento di Medicina (DIMED)
Depositing User: Livia Lenzini
Date Deposited: 03 Apr 2020 13:04
Last Modified: 03 Apr 2020 13:04
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Rossitto, Giacomogiacomo.rossitto@gmail.comUNSPECIFIED
Rossi, Gian Paologianpaolo.rossi@unipd.itorcid.org/0000-0002-7963-0931
Lenzini, Livialivia.lenzini@unipd.itorcid.org/0000-0001-6146-3015
Type of data: Text
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2019UNSPECIFIED
Resource language: English
Metadata language: English
Publisher: Research Data Unipd
Date: 19 June 2019
Copyright holders: The Author
URI: https://researchdata.cab.unipd.it/id/eprint/345

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