[en] A method of plasma and urine aldosterone radioimmunoassay is described and evaluated. Highly specific antisera were obtained through rabbit immunization using partly aldosterone-18,21-dihemisuccinate-BSA, partly aldosterone-3-carboxymethyl-oxime-BSA, free of the 18-derivative. The use of a more specific antiserum against the 3-derivative permitted the determination to be performed immediately from the biological specimen extract. Hydrolysis with sulphuric acid in the presence of dichloromethane proved the most appropriate of the different techniques of releasing aldosterone-glucuronoside for the determination of the total urine hormone. The normal values (average +- 2 S. D.) of plasma aldosterone were 0.19 +- 0.067 nmol/l, those of the free urine hormone 0.918 +- 0.458 nmol/day, and the total urine aldosterone 15.3 +- 5.8 nmol/day. (author)