What evaluation do you do in patients with hypertension and persistently elevated aldosterone/renin ratio (over 20) but without an elevated aldosterone level (under 10 ng/dL)?
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Patients with proven primary aldosteronism (based on pathology and postop aldosterone levels) can have plasma aldosterone levels <10 ng/dL. Repeating the levels, especially after optimizing their medications, can improve the test's sensitivity. The key in such cases is a PRA level <1 ng/dL. In...
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at University of Missouri School of Medicine It is also important to check aldosterone when pot...
at Johns Hopkins Department Of Endocrinology Diabetes And Metabolism There was a typo in my note. I meant In the absenc...
It is also important to check aldosterone when pot...
There was a typo in my note. I meant In the absenc...