To evaluate long-term results of adrenalectomy for primary aldosteronism (PA) and to identify prognostic factors associated.

Exhaustive retrospective review of all consecutive patients undergoing adrenalectomy for PA between 2002 and 2013 in our department. All patients underwent preoperative: clinical evaluation (age, sex, height, weight, systolic and diastolic BP under treatment, identification of anti-hypertension treatment), biological evaluation (potassium, renin, aldosterone) and radiological evaluation (CT and/or MRI). Blood pressure was assessed postoperatively at 1 month, 1 year, then at the date of the latest news. The patients were classified into three categories: cured (no antihypertensive therapy in postoperative associated with strictly lower blood pressures of 140/90mmHg), improved (decreased number of drugs or number unchanged but with better blood pressure control), and refractory (no change in the number of drug and blood pressure, or deterioration of one or other of these two parameters).

To evaluate long-term results of adrenalectomy for primary aldosteronism (PA) and to identify prognostic factors associated.Exhaustive retrospective review of all consecutive patients undergoing adrenalectomy for PA between 2002 and 2013 in our department. All patients underwent preoperative: clinical evaluation (age, sex, height, weight, systolic and diastolic BP under treatment, identification of anti-hypertension treatment), biological evaluation (potassium, renin, aldosterone) and radiological evaluation (CT and/or MRI). Blood pressure was assessed postoperatively at 1 month, 1 year, then at the date of the latest news. The patients were classified into three categories: cured (no antihypertensive therapy in postoperative associated with strictly lower blood pressures of 140/90mmHg), improved (decreased number of drugs or number unchanged but with better blood pressure control), and refractory (no change in the number of drug and blood pressure, or deterioration of one or other of these two parameters).

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients >25 years and <80 years patients undergoing adrenalectomy for PA
• All patients underwent preoperative: clinical evaluation (age, sex, height, weight, systolic and diastolic BP under treatment, identification of anti-hypertension treatment), biological evaluation (potassium, renin, aldosterone) and radiological evaluation (CT and/or MRI).

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients <25 years
• patients > 80 years

Between 2002 and 2013, the investigators evaluated all patients receiving adrenalectomy and extracted data on PAH patients. The diagnosis was made on the presence of hypertension (all stages combined), an autonomous hyperproduction of aldosterone and sometimes hypokalemia (n = 32). HTA was defined, in accordance with the recommendations of the Haute Autorité de Santé and the French Society of Arterial Hypertension (blood pressure greater than or equal to 140/90 mmHg)