Soinio et al. recently compared the diagnostic accuracy of 11C-metomidate PET (11C-MTO-PET) and cosyntropin-stimulated adrenal venous sampling (AVS) for the subtyping of patients with primary aldosteronism (PA), who were diagnosed according to the 2008 Endocrine Society guidelines. They concluded that 11C-MTO-PET offered no diagnostic usefulness in subtyping of PA patients. In our view, this conclusion needs to be taken with great caution owing to a number of concerns that can be raised concerning their study.
Functional imaging by 11C-metomidate PET: a really useless technique for Primary Aldosteronism subtyping? / Crimì, Filippo; Spimpolo, Alessandro; Cecchin, Diego; Rossi, Gian Paolo. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGY. - ISSN 0804-4643. - (2021). [10.1530/eje-20-1402]
Functional imaging by 11C-metomidate PET: a really useless technique for Primary Aldosteronism subtyping?
Crimì, Filippo;Spimpolo, Alessandro;
2021
Abstract
Soinio et al. recently compared the diagnostic accuracy of 11C-metomidate PET (11C-MTO-PET) and cosyntropin-stimulated adrenal venous sampling (AVS) for the subtyping of patients with primary aldosteronism (PA), who were diagnosed according to the 2008 Endocrine Society guidelines. They concluded that 11C-MTO-PET offered no diagnostic usefulness in subtyping of PA patients. In our view, this conclusion needs to be taken with great caution owing to a number of concerns that can be raised concerning their study.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
