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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
2604 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2010-05-31
2011-11-30
Brief Summary
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The first aim of the AVIS study is to collect summary data on how AVS is being performed throughout the world to answer the following questions:
* How many AVS studies haw been performed yearly from 2005 to 2010 at each center?
* How many adrenal vein ruptures occurred during the AVS at each center?Has the rate of adrenal vein rupture been steady or has it changed over the 5 years?
* How many centers use bilaterally simultaneous and how many use sequential AVS catheterization?
* How many radiologists perform AVS at each center?
* How many centers use a cosyntropin stimulation during AVS?
* What is the percentage of PA patients in whom AVS is performed?
* How many centres calculate the selectivity index? What is the minimum cutoff used?
* How many centers calculate the lateralization index? What is the minimum cutoff used?
* Are the AVS studies that are not bilaterally selective used for diagnosis?
* How many centers calculate the controlateral suppression index and what is the minimum cutoff used?
* What is the cost of AVS for the National Health System or Insurance and for patients? The second aim of the study is to calculate the rate of AVS studies that are selective and show lateralization of aldosterone excess at each center by applying predefined set of criteria for defining selectivity and lateralization. Data on the final diagnosis of the PA subtype will be gathered and used as reference to assess the performance of AVS using receiver operating characteristic curves analysis and the Youden index to determine the optimal cutoffs. A worksheet will need to be completed providing information on the following: Demography; Date of AVS;Baseline blood pressure (BP) values and serum K+;Dynamic test during the AVS if any; plasma aldosterone and cortisol concentration in the infra-adrenal inferior vena cava and in the right and left adrenal vein; diagnosis of PA subtype; treatment (adrenalectomy or pharmacological therapy); post-treatment BP and serum K+ values; concordance/discordance between imaging (CT or RM) and AVS.
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Detailed Description
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Thus, it remains unclear which is the proportion of patients with PA who are offered AVS at the different centers, and how many of those who are submitted to AVS ultimately undergo adrenalectomy.
In an era of shrinking budget the issue of cost the issue of costs of the procedure also remains a relevant one when assessing the cost-effectiveness of the diagnostic work-up of PA. A preliminary survey suggests that there are huge variations across different countries in the charges for AVS to both the patients and/or the health care and insurance system.
It is likely that one of the reasons for the lack of consensus on AVS could depend on the facts that: i) no single centre as gathered a number of AVS studies large enough to warrant solid conclusions; ii) there has been no systematic survey of the AVS data that have been generated around the world in this field
Aims of the study. Based on this background, the aims of the AVIS study are those described above.
Study design. To the first aim a questionnaire will be circulated among the centers that are internationally recognized and have published in the field of AVS and have agreed to participate in the study.
The data will be collected and handled at the maximum level of confidentiality under the requirement of the Declaration of Helsinki.
Study selection criteria. Eligible centers will be identified among those that have published in the English literature on AVS or PA (reported variously as observational cohort studies, or clinical trials): Studies will be identified through computer-assisted literature searches of databases, scanning of reference lists, hand-searching of relevant journals, correspondence with authors of relevant reports and consultation with experts in the field.
The inclusion criteria will be the consent of the leading investigator to participate in the data collection.
The only exclusion criteria will be the refusal to participate in the study. The number of adhering and non-adhering centers will be recorded and mentioned in the publications.
Data collection. Data will be collected in an anonymous way on many characteristics at baseline and at subsequent surveys during follow-up. Information on categorical variables, will be systematically re-coded to ensure comparability among studies. For each individual patient, data were sought on the following outcomes: blood pressure and antihypertensive medications at follow-up post-adrenalectomy and on dates of occurrence of cardiovascular events, including non-fatal CHD; non fatal stroke; specific cause mortality (or at least fatal CDH and fatal stroke) and other cardiovascular outcomes. Being a retrospective study, precise details of the diagnostic criteria used for the definition of incident cases will be sought from each centre (as were data on the completeness of follow-up).
Data obtained from each participating study will be checked for internal consistency and any queries that might arrive will clarified with the P.I. of each centre, before harmonization to a standard format.
The content of the data will be unchanged by this process, and computer-generated detailed summary tabulations based will be reviewed and confirmed by collaborators.
Data will be stored securely and anonymously at the coordinating centre.
Statistical analysis will be performed by use of summary statistics after appropriate transformation of the variables that show a skewed distribution as PAC and PCC by means of the SPSS for Mac (vers 18.0), GaphPad and the MedCalc softwares.
Scientific Committee. The leading investigator of each centre contributing at least 50 AVS studies will be invited to participate in the scientific committee of the AVIS study and will have full access to the locked database.
Expected results. Upon completion of the first phase of the study the investigators expect to be able to gather information on the way AVS is being performed around the world and therefore to prepare a first manuscript reporting on the number of AVS per centre, the rate of adrenal vein ruptures during the procedure, the rate of use of simultaneous/sequential AVS catheterization, the number of radiologists that perform AVS and their success rate in the procedure, the rate of use of stimulation test during the perform of AVS, the percentage of PA patients to whom AVS is offered at each center, the rate of calculation of the selectivity index, the lateralization index and the contralateral suppression index and their cutoff limits, the use of AVS studies that are not bilaterally selective for diagnosis and the costs of AVS for the National Health System or Insurance and for the patients.
Upon completion of the database with the individual data the investigators expect to be able to gather \> 2000 AVS studies, in a single database. After harmonization of the data, identification of the outliers and of the underlying reasons (by interaction with the leading investigator at each center), the database will be locked. The investigators will then undertake the statistical analysis, which will entail the following variables:
* Demography (sex, age, race);
* Baseline blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) values;
* Serum K+ before AVS;
* Dynamic test during the AVS if any;
* Plasma aldosterone (PAC) and cortisol concentration (PCC) in the infraadrenal inferior vena cava (IVC) and in the right (RAV) and left (LAV) adrenal vein;
* Final diagnosis (bilateral adrenocortical hyperplasia (BAH), unilateral adrenocortical hyperplasia (UAH), aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA), bilateral APA;
* Treatment (adrenalectomy or pharmacological therapy);
* Post-treatment blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) values;
* Post-treatment sK+ ;
* Diagnosis concordance/discordance between imaging (CT or RM) and AVS. Data on the demography, biochemical and hemodynamic features of the patients selected for AVS in the different continents will be obtained and information on the rate of successful catheterization will be generated. The concordance rate of imaging and AVS results will also be determined and the clinical usefulness of the AVS for establishing the indication to adrenalectomy will be ascertained in the largest database available ever.
Conditions
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Study Design
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COHORT
RETROSPECTIVE
Study Groups
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Adrenal Venous Sampling (AVS)
Patients with Primary Aldosteronism (PA) undergoing AVS to discriminate PA forms with unilateral from bilateral excess aldosterone production.
No interventions assigned to this group
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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University Hospital Padova
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Gian Paolo Rossi, MD, FAHA, FACC
MD, FAHA, FACC
Principal Investigators
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GianPaolo Rossi, MD, FACC
Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
Dept Clinical and Experimental Medicine (DMCS), University Hospital of Padova, Italy
Locations
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Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, United States
Medical College of Wisconsin
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, United States
Endocrine Hypertension Research Centre, University of Queensland School of Medicine, Greenslopes Hospital
Brisbane, , Australia
Foothills Medical Centre, University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal (CHUM)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
General Faculty Hospital, Prague
Prague, , Czechia
University of Paris, Hopital Européen Georges Pompidou
Paris, , France
Christian J Strasburger
Berlin, , Germany
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, , Germany
Medizinische Klinik Innenstadt
Munich, , Germany
University Hospital Wuerzburg
Würzburg, , Germany
Dept Clinical and Experimental Medicine (DMCS), University Hospital of Padova, Italy
Padua, , Italy
Medicina 2, Dipartimento di Medicina Interna e Specialità Mediche, Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria Nuova
Reggio Emilia, , Italy
National Hospital Organizatio, Kyoto Medical Center
Kyoto, , Japan
Tohoku University Hospital
Sendai, , Japan
Institute of Clinical Endocrinology, Tokyo Women's Medical University
Tokyo, , Japan
Yokohama Rosai Hospital
Yokohama, , Japan
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center
Nijmegen, , Netherlands
National Taiwan University Hospital
Taipei, , Taiwan
Countries
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References
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Funder J, Carey R, Fardella C, Gomez-Sanchez C, Mantero F, Stowasser M, Young W, Montori VM. Withdrawn: Case detection, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with primary aldosteronism: an Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline. Eur J Endocrinol. 2009 Sep 30. doi: 10.1530/EJE-09-0870. Online ahead of print.
Stewart PM, Allolio B. Adrenal vein sampling for Primary Aldosteronism: time for a reality check. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2010 Feb;72(2):146-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2009.03714.x. Epub 2009 Sep 21. No abstract available.
Seccia TM, Miotto D, De Toni R, Pitter G, Mantero F, Pessina AC, Rossi GP. Adrenocorticotropic hormone stimulation during adrenal vein sampling for identifying surgically curable subtypes of primary aldosteronism: comparison of 3 different protocols. Hypertension. 2009 May;53(5):761-6. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.108.128553. Epub 2009 Apr 6.
Rossi GP, Pitter G, Bernante P, Motta R, Feltrin G, Miotto D. Adrenal vein sampling for primary aldosteronism: the assessment of selectivity and lateralization of aldosterone excess baseline and after adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) stimulation. J Hypertens. 2008 May;26(5):989-97. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e3282f9e66a.
Mulatero P, Bertello C, Sukor N, Gordon R, Rossato D, Daunt N, Leggett D, Mengozzi G, Veglio F, Stowasser M. Impact of different diagnostic criteria during adrenal vein sampling on reproducibility of subtype diagnosis in patients with primary aldosteronism. Hypertension. 2010 Mar;55(3):667-73. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.146613. Epub 2010 Feb 1.
Auchus RJ, Wians FH Jr, Anderson ME, Dolmatch BL, Trimmer CK, Josephs SC, Chan D, Toomay S, Nwariaku FE. What we still do not know about adrenal vein sampling for primary aldosteronism. Horm Metab Res. 2010 Jun;42(6):411-5. doi: 10.1055/s-0030-1252060. Epub 2010 Apr 21.
Nishikawa T, Saito J, Omura M. Adrenal venous sampling is absolutely requisite for definitively diagnosing primary aldosteronism as well as for detecting laterality of the adrenal lesion. Hypertens Res. 2007 Nov;30(11):1009-10. doi: 10.1291/hypres.30.1009. No abstract available.
Pintus G, Seccia TM, Amar L, Azizi M, Riester A, Reincke M, Widimsky J, Naruse M, Kocjan T, Negro A, Kline G, Tanabe A, Satoh F, Rump LC, Vonend O, Fuller PJ, Yang J, Chee NYN, Magill SB, Shafigullina Z, Quinkler M, Oliveras A, Lee BC, Chang CC, Wu VC, Kratka Z, Battistel M, Bagordo D, Caroccia B, Ceolotto G, Rossitto G, Rossi GP. Subtype Identification of Surgically Curable Primary Aldosteronism During Treatment With Mineralocorticoid Receptor Blockade. Hypertension. 2024 Jun;81(6):1391-1399. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.124.22721. Epub 2024 Mar 25.
Rossi GP, Bagordo D, Amar L, Azizi M, Riester A, Reincke M, Degenhart C, Widimsky J, Naruse M, Deinum J, Kocjan T, Negro A, Rossi E, Kline G, Tanabe A, Satoh F, Rump LC, Vonend O, Willenberg HS, Fuller PJ, Yang J, Chee NYN, Magill SB, Shafigullina Z, Quinkler M, Oliveras A, Lee BC, Chang CC, Wu VC, Kratka Z, Battistel M, Rossitto G, Seccia TM. Unilaterally Selective Adrenal Vein Sampling for Identification of Surgically Curable Primary Aldosteronism. Hypertension. 2023 Oct;80(10):2003-2013. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.123.21247. Epub 2023 Jun 15.
Rossi GP, Crimi F, Rossitto G, Amar L, Azizi M, Riester A, Reincke M, Degenhart C, Widimsky J, Naruse M, Deinum J, Kool LS, Kocjan T, Negro A, Rossi E, Kline G, Tanabe A, Satoh F, Rump LC, Vonend O, Willenberg HS, Fuller PJ, Yang J, Chee NYN, Magill SB, Shafigullina Z, Quinkler M, Oliveras A, Wu VC, Kratka Z, Barbiero G, Battistel M, Seccia TM. Feasibility of Imaging-Guided Adrenalectomy in Young Patients With Primary Aldosteronism. Hypertension. 2022 Jan;79(1):187-195. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.18284. Epub 2021 Nov 17.
Rossi GP, Crimi F, Rossitto G, Amar L, Azizi M, Riester A, Reincke M, Degenhart C, Widimsky J, Naruse M, Deinum J, Schultze Kool L, Kocjan T, Negro A, Rossi E, Kline G, Tanabe A, Satoh F, Christian Rump L, Vonend O, Willenberg HS, Fuller PJ, Yang J, Chee NYN, Magill SB, Shafigullina Z, Quinkler M, Oliveras A, Cent Wu V, Kratka Z, Barbiero G, Seccia TM, Battistel M. Identification of Surgically Curable Primary Aldosteronism by Imaging in a Large, Multiethnic International Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 Oct 21;106(11):e4340-e4349. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgab482.
Rossitto G, Amar L, Azizi M, Riester A, Reincke M, Degenhart C, Widimsky J, Naruse M, Deinum J, Schultzekool L, Kocjan T, Negro A, Rossi E, Kline G, Tanabe A, Satoh F, Rump LC, Vonend O, Willenberg HS, Fuller P, Yang J, Nian Chee NY, Magill SB, Shafigullina Z, Quinkler M, Oliveras A, Chang CC, Wu VC, Somloova Z, Maiolino G, Barbiero G, Battistel M, Lenzini L, Quaia E, Pessina AC, Rossi GP. Subtyping of Primary Aldosteronism in the AVIS-2 Study: Assessment of Selectivity and Lateralization. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2020 Jun 1;105(6):dgz017. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgz017.
Rossi GP, Rossitto G, Amar L, Azizi M, Riester A, Reincke M, Degenhart C, Widimsky J Jr, Naruse M, Deinum J, Schultze Kool L, Kocjan T, Negro A, Rossi E, Kline G, Tanabe A, Satoh F, Christian Rump L, Vonend O, Willenberg HS, Fuller PJ, Yang J, Chee NYN, Magill SB, Shafigullina Z, Quinkler M, Oliveras A, Dun Wu K, Wu VC, Kratka Z, Barbiero G, Battistel M, Chang CC, Vanderriele PE, Pessina AC. Clinical Outcomes of 1625 Patients With Primary Aldosteronism Subtyped With Adrenal Vein Sampling. Hypertension. 2019 Oct;74(4):800-808. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.119.13463. Epub 2019 Sep 3.
Rossi GP, Barisa M, Allolio B, Auchus RJ, Amar L, Cohen D, Degenhart C, Deinum J, Fischer E, Gordon R, Kickuth R, Kline G, Lacroix A, Magill S, Miotto D, Naruse M, Nishikawa T, Omura M, Pimenta E, Plouin PF, Quinkler M, Reincke M, Rossi E, Rump LC, Satoh F, Schultze Kool L, Seccia TM, Stowasser M, Tanabe A, Trerotola S, Vonend O, Widimsky J Jr, Wu KD, Wu VC, Pessina AC. The Adrenal Vein Sampling International Study (AVIS) for identifying the major subtypes of primary aldosteronism. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2012 May;97(5):1606-14. doi: 10.1210/jc.2011-2830. Epub 2012 Mar 7.
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GPR-AVIS
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Identifier Source: org_study_id
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