Mineralocorticoid functional of adrenal cortex in patients with pheochromocytoma

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of renin–angiotensin system and content precursor of aldosterone and their metabolites, investigated by methods of high-performance liquid chromatography and gas chromatography – mass-spectrometry in 49 patients with pheochromocytoma (РНЕО) and 28 patients with non-active adenoma of the adrenal cortex and 26 healthy people. In the group of patients with PHEO the increased blood levels оf aldosterone and urine excretion of 18-hydroxycorticosterone, tetrahydrocorticosterone and it 5-α form were obtained. These patients had features of hyporeninemic and hyperreninemic hyperaldosteronism. Positive correlations of urinary excretion of free normetanephrine with blood aldosterone, renin, corticosterone and 18-hydroxycorticosterone suggest the relationship between adrenal cortex and medulla.

Keywords

pheochromocytoma / mineralocorticoid hormones / urine steroid profiles / high-performance liquid chromatography / gas chromatography

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Vorokhobina N.V., Ivanushko M.A., Velikanova L.I., Shustov S.B., Shafigullina Z.R., Lisitsyn A.A.