Functional imaging by 11C-metomidate PET: a really useless technique for Primary Aldosteronism subtyping?

Filippo Crimì, Alessandro Spimpolo, Diego Cecchin, Gian Paolo Rossi
2021 European Journal of Endocrinology  
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
doi:10.1530/eje-20-1402 fatcat:t2lmlzhycfh7ph3oaubwa4fc2i