Adrenal venous sampling in a patient with left inferior vena cava

Adrenal venous sampling (AVS), although difficult, is recommended for patients with primary aldosteronism (PA) to diagnose the subtype. Recognizing anatomical variation is key to a successful AVS. We report on a patient with PA and left inferior vena cava (IVC) whose left adrenal vein drained direct...

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Autores principales: Fujii, Yuichi, Ueda, Tomohiro, Uchimura, Yuko, Teragawa, Hiroki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5378859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28396773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.875
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author Fujii, Yuichi
Ueda, Tomohiro
Uchimura, Yuko
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description Adrenal venous sampling (AVS), although difficult, is recommended for patients with primary aldosteronism (PA) to diagnose the subtype. Recognizing anatomical variation is key to a successful AVS. We report on a patient with PA and left inferior vena cava (IVC) whose left adrenal vein drained directly into the IVC.
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spelling pubmed-53788592017-04-10 Adrenal venous sampling in a patient with left inferior vena cava Fujii, Yuichi Ueda, Tomohiro Uchimura, Yuko Teragawa, Hiroki Clin Case Rep Case Reports Adrenal venous sampling (AVS), although difficult, is recommended for patients with primary aldosteronism (PA) to diagnose the subtype. Recognizing anatomical variation is key to a successful AVS. We report on a patient with PA and left inferior vena cava (IVC) whose left adrenal vein drained directly into the IVC. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5378859/ /pubmed/28396773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.875 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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title Adrenal venous sampling in a patient with left inferior vena cava
title_full Adrenal venous sampling in a patient with left inferior vena cava
title_fullStr Adrenal venous sampling in a patient with left inferior vena cava
title_full_unstemmed Adrenal venous sampling in a patient with left inferior vena cava
title_short Adrenal venous sampling in a patient with left inferior vena cava
title_sort adrenal venous sampling in a patient with left inferior vena cava
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5378859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28396773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.875
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