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How Common Is Hypercortisolism in Patients With Hypertension? Risk Factors, Epidemiology, and Making a Diagnosis

Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Endogenous hypercortisolism (EHC) is an underrecognised and clinically significant contributor to hypertension, particularly resistant hypertension. Once viewed as a rare entity, EHC is now understood as a spectrum of cortisol excess associated with adverse cardiometabolic outcomes and target‐organ damage.
Omar Al Dhaybi, Deepak L. Bhatt
wiley   +1 more source

Metabolic profiling reveals distinct metabolic alterations in different subtypes of pituitary adenomas and confers therapeutic targets

Journal of Translational Medicine, 2019
Background Pituitary adenomas are common brain tumors. Although transsphenoidal surgery are able to achieve extensive tumor removal, the rate of recurrence ranges from 5 to 20% depending on the different subtype.
Jie Feng, Hua Gao, Qi Zhang, Yang Zhou, Chuzhong Li, Sida Zhao, Lichuan Hong, Jinjin Yang, Shuyu Hao, Wan Hong, Zhengping Zhuang, Guowang Xu, Yazhuo Zhang   +12 more
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Is Hypercortisolism Treatable? Which Patients Should Be Treated and How—A Practical Guide for Clinicians

Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To provide a practical guide on when to suspect endogenous hypercortisolism, how to use the overnight 1‐mg dexamethasone suppression test (DST) for targeted case‐finding, and which patients are most likely to benefit from treatment.
Juan Pablo Frias
wiley   +1 more source

Is Ki-67 Index an Useful Labeling Marker for Invasion of Pituitary Adenomas?

Endocrinology Research and Practice, 2005
The Ki-67 antigen is a protein expressed in cell nuclei throughout the entire cell cycle. It is related to the cell proliferation in a variety of pituitary tumors.
Hülya Gözü, Mustafa Bozbuğa, Mesut Şeker, Ekrem Orbay, Berkant Sönmez, Haluk Sargın, Mehmet Sargın, Fatih Erkal, Jülide Hazneci, Bilge Bilgiç, Çiçek Bayındır   +10 more
doaj   +2 more sources

ACTH suppression and adverse effects of cabergoline in horses with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction

Equine Veterinary Education, EarlyView.
Summary Background The diagnosis and management of pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID) in horses includes evaluating abnormal plasma concentrations of adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH). Treatment commonly includes the oral dopamine agonist pergolide mesylate, which suppresses the pathologic overproduction of ACTH.
A. Bracken, H. Tyra, M. Vetter, K. Kiger, S. Rao, L. Bass   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Calcification in Pituitary Adenomas

Neurologia medico-chirurgica, 1983
Though radiographically-proven calcifications in pituitary adenomas are rare, a higher incidence of microscopically-proven calcified adenomas has been recently reported. Therefore, the incidence of radiological and microscopical calcifications in various types of pituitary adenomas in a consecutive series of 169 cases (71 acromegalies, 54 prolactinomas,
KATO, Tetsuo, KUWAYAMA, Akio, TAKAHASHI, Tatsuo, KAGEYAMA, Naoki   +3 more
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The experience of stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy use in combined treatment of pituitary adenomas

Ukrainian Neurosurgical Journal, 2015
Introduction. Pituitary tumors take the third place in a structure of CNS neoplasms and ranged from 4 to 17% of all brain tumors.The purpose.
Andrey Gryazov, Olga Chuvashova, Nikolay Guk, Aleksandr Guk, Yuliya Medvedovskaya, Elena Andriychenko, Vitaliy Zakordonets   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The relationship between psychosocial risk and neurocognitive functioning early after childhood central nervous system tumour diagnosis

Journal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Neurocognitive impairments are common in paediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumours and can relate to clinical and demographic factors. The impact of social or environmental factors, such as family psychosocial risk, is less well understood.
Jessica Beamish, Riley M. Damiano, Josephine Drijver, Femke Aarsen, Martha Grootenhuis, Marita Partanen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pituitary adenoma apoplexy

Clinical Medicine (Russian Journal), 2017
We present 3 cases of pituitary adenoma apoplexy in young women (one microadenoma and two macroadenomas). The possible risk factors, clinical presentation and outcome of pituitary apoplexy are discussed. Diagnostic errors as regards pituitary adenoma apoplexy are analyzed.
openaire   +2 more sources

Endoscopic surgery of pituitary adenomas. Historical overview

Эндокринная хирургия, 2015
Over the past century pituitary surgery has undergone multiple revolutions in surgical technique and technological advancements that have resulted in what is now recognized as modern transsphenoidal surgery.
V N Azizyan, A Y Grigoriev, O V Ivashenko   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source