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New England Journal of Medicine, 1995
Cushing's syndrome is usually caused by the secretion of corticotropin or cortisol by a pituitary or adrenal tumor, respectively, or by ectopic secretion of corticotropin. It is possible to determine the specific abnormality in most patients, but it can sometimes be difficult to decide whether the patient has hypercortisolism and whether it is primary ...
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Cushing's syndrome is usually caused by the secretion of corticotropin or cortisol by a pituitary or adrenal tumor, respectively, or by ectopic secretion of corticotropin. It is possible to determine the specific abnormality in most patients, but it can sometimes be difficult to decide whether the patient has hypercortisolism and whether it is primary ...
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Hypertension in Cushing's syndrome
Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2006Cushing's syndrome can be exogenous, resulting from the administration of glucocorticoids or adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH), or endogenous, secondary to increased secretion of cortisol or ACTH. Hypertension is one of the most distinguishing features of endogenous Cushing's syndrome, as it is present in about 80% of adult patients and in almost ...
Maria Alexandra, Magiakou +2 more
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Androgens in Cushing’s Syndrome
2019Although polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common androgen excess disorder, screening for Cushing's Syndrome (CS) should be considered in women with PCOS phenotype, particularly if they are also affected by other disturbances that increase their pretest probability (e.g., osteoporosis/bone fractures).
Arnaldi G., Martino M.
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Cushing's syndrome in pregnancy
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 1982Abstract A diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome due to an adrenal adenoma was made at 32 weeks of gestation in a 26-year-old woman. Of particular interest were the very low levels of urinary estriol. At 36 weeks of gestation she spontaneously ruptured the membranes and delivered a 1.64 kg small-for-gestational-age male infant who was noted to have a minor
H, Khakoo +3 more
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Adrenalectomy for Cushing's syndrome
The American Journal of Surgery, 1960Abstract 1. 1. During a twenty-six-year period forty patients with proved Cushing's disease have been treated at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. 2. 2. Thirty-eight patients received some form of surgical therapy. There were no operative deaths. 3. 3. Two patients treated prior to 1948 died without surgery.
H, MANNIX, R, KARL, F, GLENN
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The American Journal of Medicine, 1984
Cyclic Cushing's syndrome is a rare but increasingly recognized disorder of periodic fluctuations of adrenal steroid production. A case of cyclic Cushing's syndrome due to a pituitary adenoma is described. The patient demonstrated a prolonged cycle length of approximately six months, during which a spontaneous remission occurred both clinically and ...
R, Sakiyama +2 more
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Cyclic Cushing's syndrome is a rare but increasingly recognized disorder of periodic fluctuations of adrenal steroid production. A case of cyclic Cushing's syndrome due to a pituitary adenoma is described. The patient demonstrated a prolonged cycle length of approximately six months, during which a spontaneous remission occurred both clinically and ...
R, Sakiyama +2 more
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Acta Endocrinologica, 1978
ABSTRACT Cushing's syndrome has been demonstrated in four of seven siblings with clinical manifestations appearing around puberty in three of the four siblings. The only other associated findings in these cases were short stature and disturbed carbohydrate metabolism.
B, Arce, M, Licea, S, Hung, R, Padrón
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ABSTRACT Cushing's syndrome has been demonstrated in four of seven siblings with clinical manifestations appearing around puberty in three of the four siblings. The only other associated findings in these cases were short stature and disturbed carbohydrate metabolism.
B, Arce, M, Licea, S, Hung, R, Padrón
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Cushing's Syndrome and Dermatomycosis
Archives of Dermatology, 1959Introduction Cushing's syndrome, whether it reflects primary adrenal cortical hyperfunction, or hypercorticalism secondary to pituitary basophilism, is a rare disease. A review of the records at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital for the period 1948—1958 produced a total of only eight such cases.
O, CANIZARES, H, SHATIN, A J, KELLERT
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Hyperkortisolismus (Cushing-Syndrom, Morbus Cushing, adrenales Cushing-Syndrom)
2014Als Cushing-Syndrom bezeichnet man samtliche Zustande pathologisch erhohter und biologisch wirksamer Kortisolspiegel im Blut, einschlieslich medikamentos-induzierter Formen. Als Morbus Cushing wird die zentrale hypothalamisch-hypophysare Form des Hyperkortisolismus bei Hypophysenadenomen bezeichnet. Das adrenale Cushing-Syndrom ist sehr selten und kann
Paolo Fornara, Felix Kawan
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