Cushing syndrome
Residual manifestations of hypercortisolemia following surgical treatment in a patient with Cushing syndrome
... Patient: A 4 year old morbidly obese African-American girl with developmental delay presented with hypertensive emergency in the ER and 18-month history of progressive weight gain. Her previous history included premature ...
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Acute development of Cushing syndrome in an HIV-infected child on atazanavir/ritonavir based antiretroviral therapy
... iatrogenic Cushing syndrome and suppression of HPA axis secondary to the drug interaction between ritonavir (RTV) and intra-articular triamcinolone ...iatrogenic Cushing syndrome, at the start ...
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Case-series of paraneoplastic Cushing syndrome in small-cell lung cancer
... ectopic Cushing syndrome, which is a rare phenomenon of the adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-dependent Cushing ...ectopic Cushing syndrome diagnosis should be considered, and ...
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Cushing syndrome: uncovering Carney complex due to novel PRKAR1A mutation
... PPNAD can occur as part of CNC, a rare multiple neoplasia syndrome characterized by spotty skin pigmentation, myxomas and endocrine tumors. The diagnosis of CNC can be made based on major clinical manifestations, ...
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Diagnostic Tests for Children Who Are Referred for the Investigation of Cushing Syndrome
... Endogenous Cushing syndrome in children is a rare disorder that is most frequently caused by pituitary or adrenocortical ...of Cushing syndrome in ...
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Cases of Psychiatric Morbidity in Pediatric Patients After Remission of Cushing Syndrome
... Endogenous Cushing syndrome (CS) may have different effects in children than what has been described in adults. Previous studies of children and adolescents with CS have identified cognitive decline despite ...
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Fatal factitious Cushing syndrome (Münchhausen’s syndrome) in a patient with macroprolactinoma and silent corticotrophinoma: case report and literature review
... Immunoassays for Fs and UTC demonstrated variable cross-reactivity with synthetic corticosteroids and their metabolites; these variations can range from 6 % for prednisone to 62 % for prednisolone, depending on the kit, ...
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A Challenging Case of an Ectopic Cushing Syndrome
... Cushing syndrome (CS) refers to a diverse symptom complex resulting from excess steroid hormone production by adrenal gland (endogenous) or from sustained administration of glucocorticoids (exogenous) [1, ...
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White Matter Alterations in the Brains of Patients with Active, Remitted, and Cured Cushing Syndrome: A DTI Study
... with Cushing syndrome compared with controls, independent of the cardiovascular risk factors ...cured Cushing syndrome subgroups showed similar changes compared with ...remitted Cushing ...
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Multiple myeloma concealed by adrenal Cushing syndrome: a case report and review of the literature
... Case presentation: We presented an extremely rare case of a 33-year-old Thai woman with concomitant kappa light chain myeloma with adrenal Cushing syndrome, both of which were related to skeletal ...
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Symptomatic Cushing syndrome and hyperandrogenemia revealing steroid cell ovarian neoplasm with late intra-abdominal metastasis
... for Cushing syn- drome in women presented with hirsutism is a contro- versial ...for Cushing syndrome irrespective of their suggestive findings of ...as Cushing syndrome by low-dose ...
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Retinoic acid prevents experimental Cushing syndrome
... The tumor volume was monitored throughout the treatment. Retinoic acid completely blocked the growth of corticotroph tumors (Figure 7a). Histologi- cal examination showed that the tumors under retinoic acid treatment had ...
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Cushing syndrome secondary to ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone secretion from a Meckel diverticulum neuroendocrine tumor: case report
... Case presentation: A 44-year-old man was admitted with recent onset of diabetes, myopathy, edema and hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis consistent with Cushing ’ s syndrome. Both basal and dynamic laboratory ...
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Cushing Syndrome Revealing an Adrenocortical Carcinoma
... The diagnostic approach during a Cushing’s syndrome is often faced with technical limitations in a context of scarce resources. In fact, after having dem- onstrated hypercortisolism, the second step is to confirm ...
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Treatment of Cushing disease: overview and recent findings
... in hypercortisolism. Clinical features of hypercortisolism include weight gain, severe fatigue and muscle weakness, high blood pressure, depression, cognitive impairment, purplish skin striae, easy bruising, loss of ...
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Clinical Reasoning: A 43-year-old woman with right limb weakness
... In cases where refractory hypertension is associated with diabetes, hypokalemia, facial acne, abdominal obesity, and other metabolic syndromes, secondary hypertension should initially be ruled out. Secondary hypertension ...
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A pitfall of bilateral inferior petrosal sinus sampling in cyclic Cushing’s syndrome
... Cyclical Cushing ’ s syndrome in a patient with a bronchial neuroendocrine tumor (typical carcinoid) expressing ghrelin and growth hormone secretagogue ...H. Cushing syndrome with cyclical ...
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Ectopic Cushing's syndrome Of Unknown Origin: A Rare Case Report
... Cushing's syndrome, first, serum levels of ACTH were check to differentiate the two types of ACTH dependent and ACTH independent Cushing's ...ectopic Cushing syndrome ...
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Illustration of patient-reported outcome challenges and solutions in rare diseases: a systematic review in Cushing’s syndrome
... “cushing syndrome, acth induced”; “Cushing’s disease”; “Cushings disease”; “itsenko cushing disease”; “pituitary ACTH hy- persecretion”; “health related quality of life”; “HRQL”; “HRQoL”; “life ...
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Activating PRKACB somatic mutation in cortisol-producing adenomas
... Mutations in the gene encoding the protein kinase A (PKA) catalytic subunit a have been found to be responsible for cortisol-producing adenomas (CPAs). In this study, we identified by whole-exome sequencing the somatic ...
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