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encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine




Disease hyperaldosteronism
Comorbidity C1621895|adrenal hyperplasia
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PubMedID- 22275527 Kcnj5 sequencing was performed on somatic (apa, n=380) and peripheral (apa, n=344; bilateral adrenal hyperplasia, n=174) dna of patients with primary aldosteronism, collected through the european network for the study of adrenal tumors.
PubMedID- 21297325 The clinical diagnosis of subclinical cushing's syndrome due to acth-independent macronodular adrenal hyperplasia (aimah) associated with primary aldosteronism was made, and he underwent left adrenalectomy; the resected adrenal lesion was consistent with the pathological diagnosis of aimah coexistent with aldosterone-producing adenoma (apa).
PubMedID- 24009451 Of them, 11 refused surgical treatment, one was at high risk for complications of general anesthesia, four showed normal post-dst cortisol levels at follow-up, one had been treated medically for bilateral adrenal hyperplasia with hyperaldosteronism, and one was lost to follow-up.
PubMedID- 22308486 These findings demonstrate striking variations in phenotypes and clinical outcome resulting from different mutations of the same amino acid in kcnj5 and have implications for the diagnosis and pathogenesis of primary aldosteronism with and without adrenal hyperplasia.

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