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Complications of Cushing's syndrome: state of the art [PDF]

, 2016
Cushing's syndrome is a serious endocrine disease caused by chronic, autonomous, and excessive secretion of cortisol. The syndrome is associated with increased mortality and impaired quality of life because of the occurrence of comorbidities.
Biller, Beverly M. K, Colao, Annamaria, De Martino, Maria Cristina, Isidori, Andrea, Newell Price, John, Pivonello, Rosario   +5 more
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Stapled side‐to‐side anastomosis to treat a pelvic flexure stricture in a miniature horse

Equine Veterinary Education, EarlyView.
Summary Fecaliths are a recognised cause of non‐strangulating colon obstruction in horses. Although they more commonly obstruct the small colon, they can also lodge in the pelvic flexure, requiring enterotomy for removal. Stricture at the enterotomy site is an uncommon but surgically significant complication.
M. Baglioni, N. Berka, P. Matrat, L. Legrand, L. Borde‐Dore, C. de Chaisemartin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk factors for postoperative fever after laparoscopic adrenalectomy focusing on hormones produced: a case control study

BMC Urology
Background Laparoscopic adrenalectomy is widely performed for a number of hormone-producing tumors and postoperative management depends on the hormones produced.
Mizuki Izawa, Toshikazu Takeda, Tadatsugu Anno, Tomohiro Iwasawa, Yota Yasumizu, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Shinya Morita, Takeo Kosaka, Ryuichi Mizuno, Hiroshi Asanuma, Mototsugu Oya   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Iatrogenic Cushing′s syndrome after topical steroid therapy for psoriasis

Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2016
Glucocorticoids are used for the treatment of many diseases, such as inflammatory, allergic, autoimmune, and neoplastic diseases. They can be used in the form of topical, oral, inhalable, rectal, and intra-articular agents.
Birsen Sahip, Mehmet Celik, Semra Ayturk, Ahmet Kucukarda, Onur Mert, Nejla Dincer, Sibel Guldiken, Armagan Tugrul   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Considerations for the Use of AAV‐based Gene Therapy in HIV‐Positive Individuals With Haemophilia

Haemophilia, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction There is a high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among the haemophilia community due to treatment in the 1970s and 1980s with contaminated clotting factor. Lifelong treatment regimens for haemophilia and HIV are burdensome alone and pose a particular challenge for individuals living with both conditions ...
Jürgen K. Rockstroh, Julia C. Stingl, Marco Stadler, Anja Reichert, Heiner Wedemeyer, Johannes Oldenburg   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cushing′s syndrome in a case of thymic carcinoma

Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2011
A 29-year-old gentleman presented with episodic features suggestive of Cushing′s syndrome. He was evaluated and diagnosed with ectopic Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-dependent Cushing′s syndrome due to a thymic tumor.
H S Asha, K Sudeep, Manika Alexander, Anila Korula, Birla Roy Gnanamuthu, Nihal Thomas   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Efeito do tratamento com ketoconazole por um mês na liberação de GH, cortisol e ACHT após administração de GHrelin, GHRP-6 e GHRH em pacientes com síndrome de cushing [PDF]

, 2007
GH responses to ghrelin, GHRP-6, and GHRH in Cushing s disease (CD) are markedly blunted. There is no data about the effect of reduction of cortisol levels with steroidogenesis inhibitors, like ketoconazole, on GH secretion in CD.
Correa-Silva, Silvia R., Lengyel, Ana Maria Judith, Molica, Patrícia, Nascif, Sérgio O., Silva, Marcos R.   +4 more
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Outcomes and opportunities: evaluating an unselected cohort of patients with adrenal incidentaloma at a tertiary hospital in New Zealand

Internal Medicine Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The prevalence of adrenal incidentalomas is increasing, along with the incidence of functional or malignant lesions. This study assessed how imaging of adrenal incidentalomas at a tertiary hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, without a dedicated adrenal incidentaloma service, conformed to the American College of Radiology (ACR ...
Anthony Benfell, Liam Quinlan, Kunj Joshi, Tej Joshi, Shekhar Sehgal   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nested stromal epithelial tumor of liver presenting with Cushing syndrome: A Rare case Report

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2012
Nested stromal and epithelial tumor of the liver is an extremely rare pediatric hepatic tumor. To the best of our knowledge, about 25 cases have been reported in the English literature so far, few of which accompanied with Cushing syndrome.
Bita Geramizadeh, Hamidreza Foroutan, Ali Foroutan, Mohammadreza Bordbar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of serum dexamethasone radioimmunoassay to corroborate Cushing's syndrome diagnosis [PDF]

, 2011
INTRODUCTION: The 1 mg dexamethasone suppression test (DxST) is widely used to screen Cushing's syndrome (CS) due to its high diagnostic accuracy. CS is an endocrine-metabolic disorder caused by hypercorticism, which is characterized by the absence of ...
Hayashi, Lilian Fukusima, Kater, Claudio Elias, Nakamura, Odete H, Noguti, Keiko O, Vieira, José Gilberto Henriques   +4 more
core   +3 more sources