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An adrenal incidentaloma is an adrenal mass found in an imaging study performed for other reasons unrelated to adrenal disease and often accompanied by obesity, diabetes, or hypertension. The prevalence and incidence of adrenal incidentaloma increase with age and are also expected to rise due to the rapid development of imaging technology and frequent imaging studies. The Korean Endocrine Society is promoting an appropriate practice guideline to meet the rising incidence of adrenal incidentaloma, in cooperation with the Korean Adrenal Gland and Endocrine Hypertension Study Group. In this paper, we discuss important core issues in managing the patients with adrenal incidentaloma. After evaluating core proposition, we propose the most critical 20 recommendations from the initially organized 47 recommendations by Delphi technique.
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PMID:Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Adrenal Incidentaloma. 2868 11

Endocrine hypertension, particularly primary aldosteronism (PA), was previously considered to account for less than 1% of all hypertension and was suspected only when patients presented with spontaneous hypokalemia. However, the last 20 years of PA research has now clearly shown that PA is not a rarity, but rather, may account for up to 13% of unselected hypertensive individuals and between 10% and 20% of those with resistant hypertension. Most of these patients do not have spontaneous hypokalemia. The population prevalence of PA likely far exceeds actual detection rates in routine clinical care. As PA represents one of the most common, potentially reversible causes of hypertension, and is associated with significant cardiovascular complications over the long term, it is clear that a pragmatic strategy for targeted case detection in primary care is needed.
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PMID:The Potential Role of Primary Care in Case Detection/Screening of Primary Aldosteronism. 2899 76

In 2017 the Endocrine Society issued the Scientific Statement "Screening for Endocrine Hypertension" This document was developed by experts from different medical institutions of USA, Europe and Australia. Herein we present the main provisions of this Statement in the form of brief algorithm for the clinicians' actions for timely detection of secondary endocrine hypertension and rational referral of the patient for confirmational testing.The full text of the Scientific Statement in English is contained in the article. Young WF Jr., Calhoun DA, Lenders JW, Stowasser M, Textor SC. Screening for Endocrine Hypertension: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement. Endocrine Reviews. 2017; 38 (2):103-122.URL: https://academic.oup.com/edrv/article/38/2/103/3104343.
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PMID:[The Main Provisions of the International Recommendations on Detection of Endocrine Hypertension]. 3161 91

Hypertension is one of the commonest chronic diseases contributing to cardiovascular disease. Idiopathic (primary) hypertension accounts for approximately 85% of the diagnosed cases, and 15% of hypertensive patients have other contributing conditions leading to elevated blood pressure (secondary hypertension). Endocrine hypertension is a common secondary cause of hypertension. The most common causes of endocrine hypertension are excess production of mineralocorticoids (ie, primary hyperaldosteronism), glucocorticoids (Cushing syndrome), and catecholamines (pheochromocytoma). After biochemical confirmation of hormonal excess, appropriate use of imaging modalities, both functional and anatomic, should occur for the diagnostic workup of these patients and for location of the source of hormonal excess.
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PMID:Adrenal Imaging in Patients with Endocrine Hypertension. 3165 69


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