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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 5.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2016 Oct 14;441:124–133. doi: 10.1016/j.mce.2016.10.014

Table 1.

Patient characteristics and hormonal test data.

Case # age (year) sex hight weight BMI (kg/m2) screening test for PA
confirmatory tests for PA
adrenal venous sampling data
PAC PRA ARR SIT (PAC after infusion) captopril challenge test FUT (PRA after loading) right adrenal vein data left adrenal vein data peripheral vein data lateralization data





PAC pre PAC post PRA post ARR post % decrease of PAC PAC PCC ACR PAC PCC ACR PAC PCC ACR LR CR























normal range/cut off <25 39–159 0.3–2.9 <200 <50*/<60** <200* >30** <1* >4*/>2.6** <1
1 64 M 167.8 61.7 21.9 214 0.4 535.0 NA 132 97 0.2 485 26.5 0.9 6514 529.8 12.3 32,180 511 63.0 199 17.4 11.4 5.12 1.08
2 61 M 169.2 56.0 19.6 198 0.3 660.0 NA 158 94.8 0.5 189.6 40.0 1.4 9100 1115 8.2 72,800 1188 61.3 225 19.3 11.6 7.51 0.70
3 35 F 152.4 49.8 21.4 229 0.4 572.5 336 310 283 1 283 8.7 0.8 19,800 822 24.1 53,300 446 119.5 700 24.3 28.8 4.96 0.84
4 37 M 162.0 62.2 23.7 233 0.7 332.9 80 130 125 0.4 312.5 3.8 1.3 7420 1160 6.4 39,500 988 40.0 320 27.5 11.6 6.25 0.55

BMI: body mass index (normal range: <25), M: male, F: female, PAC: plasma aldosterone concentration (pg/mL), PRA: plasma renin activity (ng/ml/h),

*

criteria in US guideline of PA (Funder et al., 2008),

**

criteria in Japanese Guideline of PA (Nishikawa et al., 2011),

FUT: furosemide upright test, PCC: plasma cortisol concentration, ACR: aldosterone cortisol ratio (PAC/PCC), LR: lateralized ratio, CR: contralateral ratio, NA: not available, PA: primary aldosteronism, SIT: saline infusion test.