Adrenal transitional zone steroids, 18-oxo and 18-hydroxycortisol, useful in the diagnosis of primary aldosteronism, are ACTH-dependent. | Read by QxMD (original) (raw)
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1. The adrenal cortical 'hybrid' steroids 18-oxocortisol (18-OF) and 18-hydroxycortisol (18-OHF) are elevated in patients with typical angiotensin-unresponsive aldosterone-producing adenoma (AII-unresponsive APA) and fall to normal following surgical removal of the adrenal containing the tumour. Since 18-OF was six times the upper limit of normal pre-operatively, the tumour was the site of overproduction of hybrid steroids. 2. The failure of angiotensin-responsive APA to overproduce the hybrid steroids may be linked to their more 'normal' production of cortisol, which falls significantly on removal of the tumours. 3. Hybrid steroid levels were also normal in patients with idiopathic hyperplasia of the adrenals (IHA) and in low renin essential hypertension. 4. In AII-responsive APA, glucocorticoid-suppressible hyperaldosteronism (GSH) and IHA, the hybrid steroids showed brisk responses to stimulation by ACTH and suppression by dexamethasone of endogenous ACTH. 5. Long-term suppression by dexamethasone of hybrid steroids in GSH is consistent with ACTH dependence, rather than angiotensin dependence. 6. Studies of the regulation of hybrid steroid secretion in various categories of hypertension will further define the biosynthetic distinctiveness which is already useful diagnostically.
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