Mark Canney, Donal J Sexton, Neil O’Leary, Martin Healy, Rose Anne Kenny, Mark A Little and Conall M O’Seaghdha Background Cystatin C has been proposed as a confirmatory test of chronic kidney disease ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A seated saline suppression test had a high false-negative rate for predicting response to primary aldosteronism ...

There are a variety of differences among markers and clearance methods for GFR measurement compared with the classic method of inulin clearance. However, the bias appears relatively small, and ...

For patients who already have a positive result on a screening test for primary aldosteronism (PA), confirmatory testing with the seated saline suppression test (SSST) adds little to the diagnostic ...

A confirmatory test to verify a primary aldosteronism diagnosis had little clinical value, according to the results of an accuracy study. Among 156 adults with a positive screening result for primary ...

HOW TO TAKE THE POST-TEST: To obtain CME credit, please click here after reading the article to take the post-test on myCME.com. Clinical assessment of kidney function is central to the practice of ...

The seated saline suppression test couldn't discriminate between patients with suspected primary aldosteronism who would and would not respond to treatment. Most patients responded to treatment, and ...