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Filter by:This research aims to establish clinical evidence for optimal treatment guidelines for adrenal diseases using real-world data. The approach involves building prospective and retrospective patient registries, which will be utilized to develop and conduct research on disease-specific protocols for adrenal disorders. The study targets patients with primary aldosteronism, pheochromocytoma, adrenal cancer, adrenal incidentalomas, and mild autonomous cortisol secretion. Registries for patients with adrenal diseases will be obtained from Seoul National University Hospital and Asan Medical Center, along with securing a common data model. The ultimate goal is to conduct research to generate clinical evidence for adrenal diseases using these resources.
- 10% of patients with hypertension potentially have the treatable condition - primary aldosteronism (PA). This is caused by either bilateral adrenal disease (~40%), managed with lifelong medications; or unilateral disease (~60%), cured with laparoscopic surgery (adrenalectomy). Current diagnosis of PA includes a screening test with aldosterone-renin ratio, followed by a confirmatory salt loading test (in most patients) to demonstrate unsuppressed aldosterone levels. Of note, some patients with suppressed aldosterone after confirmatory tests (also termed low-renin hypertension) may also have unilateral adrenal tumors. - The difficulty with identifying curable unilateral disease is due to adrenal vein sampling (AVS): an invasive, and technically-difficult procedure. An alternative novel imaging, 11C-Metomidate Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT), can detect adrenal tumors which are over-producing aldosterone. It is non-invasive, non-operator-dependent, and potentially may identify more patients with curable unilateral disease. The results from our pilot study in 25 patients with confirmed PA (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03990701, PA_CURE) showed that 11C-Metomidate PET-CT exhibited comparable performance to AVS in subtyping PA, and this should be validated in a larger study. - In addition, 11C-Metomidate is also able to differentiate adrenocortical lesions in the adrenal gland from other lesions found in adrenal tissue, such as adrenomedullary lesions (e.g. pheochromocytoma). - Hence, the investigators hypothesize that 11C-metomidate PET-CT can accurately (1) identify patients with surgically curable unilateral adrenal disease among hypertensive Asians with primary aldosteronism (PA_CURE 2 / PA_MTO EH study) and (2) differentiate adrenocortical lesions from other lesions in patients with adrenal tumors (PA_MTO AT study)
The goal of this multicenter, observational, analytic, randomized clinical trial is to analyze the laparoscopic and robot-assisted method in the surgical treatment of patients with adrenal diseases. The main question it aims to answer are: 1. to find the superiority of one the the surgical method mentioned above 2. to compare the quality of life in patients with adrenal mass before surgery and after laparoscopic or robotic-assisted adrenalectomy.
The adrenal cancer research network "COMETE" is federating French research on rare adrenal cancers. COMETE achieved major breakthroughs in the molecular characterization of adrenocortical carcinomas (ACC) and malignant pheochromocytomas/paragangliomas (MPP). Recently, COMETE successfully derived potential biomarkers for prognosis, theranostic and follow-up. Those biomarkers have been retrospectively validated. However the benefit for patients in real life conditions is not yet established. - Main objective : to implement COMETE biomarkers as a routine standard of care for adrenal cancer. - The primary end point is double : - Proportion of biomarkers results provided within 3 months after surgery, - The proportion of "informative" biomarkers, corresponding to markers passing quality controls and returning a value that is not in the grey zone of the measure. - Secondary objective : to estimate the impact of COMETE biomarkers on patients management. - Secondary endpoints : - Proportion of patients with discrepant clinical and molecular markers ; for discrepancies, proportion of decisions impacted by biomarkers results - Proportion of high risk patients for whom an actionable molecular target was identified - Predictive value (positive and negative) of biomarkers to detect recurrences - Molecular signatures of "extraordinary responders" to treatments (corresponding to the exceptional RECIST complete response, or to the >80% tumor reduction sutained for >6months)
This will be a study with SPI-62 to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and pharmacological effect of SPI-62 in subjects with hypercortisolism related to a benign adrenal tumor. Each subject will receive 2mg of SPI-62 daily.
Adrenal incidentalomas (AIs) are commonly encountered in transsection imaging which purpose not for suspected adrenal disease. However, part of AIs in patients is associated with Stroke. Stroke is a diseases which could cause of disability and death worldwide. In clinical practice, detailed information about the association between stroke and AIs is not available. In this study, the investigators aimed to investigate the risk for disability and death in the large group of stroke patients with AIs.
The main drawbacks of conventional 2D laparoscopy are limited depth perception and loss of spatial orientation. High-quality 3D laparoscopy systems might improve surgical outcomes for adrenalectomy.
The adrenal gland is an important organ that produces life hormones. There are many types of adrenal tumors, which tend to occur in young adults and affect the whole body. It has the dual threat: hormone secretion and tumor metastasis. At present, there are four major dilemmas in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of adrenal tumors: 1) Pulse secretion of the hormones, which are affected by many factors; and the diagnostic value of single hormone is limited; 2) Traditional imaging cannot accurately reflect the characteristics of hormone secretion. The prognosis cannot be accurately predicted; 3) The molecular characteristics of tumor cells and the microenvironment are unclear, making it difficult to implement early diagnosis and precise treatment; 4) Traditional pathology cannot determine the nature and long-term prognosis of the tumor, which makes the treatment delay, and the disease prognosis is extremely poor. It threatens the lives of patients. Starting from solving the above-mentioned key problems in the early stage, the research team has systematically established new clinical diagnostic technologies, hormone dynamic tests to accurately assess hormone secretion and segmented blood collection hormone determination technologies to accurately locate adrenal tumors; A series of important research results have been published in Science, Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Cell Research, etc To sum up, the goal of this research is improving the early diagnosis rate of complicated adrenal tumors especially in malignant tumors, developing the optimal treatment plan, avoiding unnecessary surgical treatment, improving the quality of life of patients, reducing mortality. This project will further integrate the adrenal cortex and medulla hormone mass spectrometry detection and the molecular markers of adrenal tumors through phenotypic, functional imaging, and molecular pathological evaluations, and built a sensitive drug screening platform that integrates visual drug response and molecular characteristics, thereby achieving precise diagnosis and treatment of complicated adrenal tumors.
This exploratory study investigates how an imaging technique called 68Ga-FAPi-46 PET/CT can determine where and to which degree the FAPI tracer (68Ga-FAPi-46) accumulates in normal and cancer tissues in patients with cancer. Because some cancers take up 68Ga-FAPi-46 it can be seen with PET. FAP stands for Fibroblast Activation Protein. FAP is produced by cells that surround tumors (cancer associated fibroblasts). The function of FAP is not well understood but imaging studies have shown that FAP can be detected with FAPI PET/CT. Imaging FAP with FAPI PET/CT may in the future provide additional information about various cancers.
The investigators hypothesize that cardiovascular and metabolic alterations can occur in patients with adrenal adenomas and possible Autonomous Cortisol Secretion (pACS). Investigators hypothesize that adrenalectomy in selected patients, following the 2016 ECE guidelines, can improve metabolic parameters and cardiovascular risks and features.