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| Items | Patients’ information |
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| Number | 82 patients |
| Age | years (range, 18–53) |
| Gender ([%]) | 20 male (24.4%); 62 female (75.6%) |
| Diagnosis by CT or MRI ([%]) | |
| Single adrenal adenoma | 80 (97.6%) |
| Multiple adrenal adenoma (unilateral) | 1 (1.2%) |
| Bilateral adrenal adenoma | 1 (1.2%) |
| Time to diagnosis | months (range, 1–61 months) |
| Blood pressure when admitted to hospital | 156/105 mmHg (range, 140~210/90~130 mmHg) |
| Hypokalemia ( value) | 68; mmoL/L (range, 2.80–3.45 mmoL/L) |
| Fasting blood glucose greater than 6.9 mmoL/L | 58; mmoL/L (range, 6.9–13.5 mmoL/L) |
| physiological fluctuationofcortisol | Absent in all patients |
| Serum cortisol on 8 AM | nmoL/L (range, 674.0–870.6 nmoL/L) |
| (normal, 147.3–609.3 nmoL/L) |
| 24 hr urinary cortisol | g/24 h (range, 497.6–1092.5 g/24 h) |
| (normal, 20.26–127.55 g/24 h) |
| Serum ACTH 8 AM | ng/L, (range, 0.05–0.8 ng/L) |
| (normal, 5.0–7.81 ng/L) |
| High dose dexamethasone suppression test (HDDST) | No suppression in all 82 patients
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| Low dose dexamethasone suppression test (LDDST) | No case of complete suppression (serum cortisol levels < 50 nmoL/L) |
| No suppression in 82 patients (>140 nmoL/L) |
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