- 著者
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             Yoshihiro Miyake
             
             Keiko Tanaka
             
             Tetsuo Nishikawa
             
             Mitsuhide Naruse
             
             Ryoichi Takayanagi
             
             Hironobu Sasano
             
             Yoshiyu Takeda
             
             Hirotaka Shibata
             
             Masakatsu Sone
             
             Fumitoshi Satoh
             
             Masanobu Yamada
             
             Hajime Ueshiba
             
             Takuyuki Katabami
             
             Yasumasa Iwasaki
             
             Hirotoshi Tanaka
             
             Yusuke Tanahashi
             
             Shigeru Suzuki
             
             Tomonobu Hasegawa
             
             Noriyuki Katsumata
             
             Toshihiro Tajima
             
             Toshihiko Yanase
             
          
- 出版者
- (社)日本内分泌学会
- 雑誌
- Endocrine Journal (ISSN:09188959)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.EJ13-0353,  (Released:2013-09-28)
- 被引用文献数
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             7
             
             
             36
             
             
          
        
        The Research Committee of Disorders of Adrenal Hormones, Japan, undertook a nationwide epidemiological study of primary aldosteronism (PA).  The present study was undertaken as a part of this study to reveal the relationship between type of treatment and the prognosis of PA.  In the primary survey, 4161 patients with PA during the period January 1, 2003-December 31, 2007 were reported from 3252 departments of internal medicine, pediatrics and urology.  In the secondary survey, a questionnaire that requested detailed clinical information on individual patients was sent to those departments reporting patients in the primary survey.  In total, data on 1706 patients with PA were available in the present study.  Among patients with bilateral or unilateral aldosterone-producing adenoma, after adjustment for age at which prognosis was examined, sex, surgical treatment and medical treatment, surgical treatment was significantly associated with amelioration of hypertension (adjusted odds ratio [OR]: 0.47 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.29–0.77]) and hypokalemia (adjusted OR: 0.17 [95% CI: 0.11–0.29]).  No significant relationship was observed between medical treatment and such prognosis in this group of patients.  Among patients with bilateral or unilateral adrenal hyperplasia, surgical, but not medical, treatment was significantly associated with amelioration of hypokalemia (adjusted OR: 0.23 [95% CI: 0.06–0.74]), while there was no relationship between surgical or medical treatment and the prognosis of hypertension.  In conclusion, surgery offered a better prognosis of PA than medication with regards to hypertension and hypokalemia, with the limitation that a new anti-aldosterone drug, eplerenone, was not available during the study period.