Cushing’s syndromeTranssphenoidal surgeryRemissionSingle center experienceTranssphenoidal surgery (TSS) to resect a pituitary adenoma is considered first-line treatment for patients with Cushing's disease (CD). Early, post-operative remission rates >80% are expected for pat...
Cushing’s syndrome and disease are conditions of cortisol excess (hypercortisolism). In Cushing’s syndrome, either one or both of the adrenal glands autonomously hypersecrete cortisol. In Cushing’s disease, a pituitary adenoma hypersecretes...
Cushing’s syndrome, also known as hypercortisolism or hyperadrenocorticism, is an endocrine disorder caused by prolonged exposure of the body’s tissues to high levels of the hormone cortisol (in the blood) from a variety of causes, including primary pituitary adenoma (known as Cushing’s dis...
Gastrointestinal perforation is a well-addressed complication of exogenous hypercortisolism; however, patients with endogenous Cushing’s syndrome (CS) do not usually experience this condition in clinical practice. The literature on this subject is limited and consists solely of clinical case reports/seri...
What is Cushing syndrome? Symptoms of the condition, which can be caused from taking medications called glucocorticoids or corticosteroids, can include a rounded face, pink or purple stretch marks on the skin and a fatty hump between the shoulders, according to Mayo Clinic, and could also lead ...
My teeth had begun rotting because of the calcium loss and my Sjogren’s Syndrome did not help matters there. I had 6 extractions in 3 months and was never able to get back down to the 10 mg. of Prednisone I had begun with. Stress, illness and then having to let the beautiful eyes...
2) his series of eight notes on "Posterior pituitary hormomes and the parasympathetic nervous sys- tem"; 3) a reprint of Cushing's original description of "Cushing's syndrome"; and 4) his Balfour lecture on "Peptic ulcer and the interbrain," in which he suggested that the hypothalamus wa...
But in a recentinterview with "News Not Noise" blogger Jessica Yellin,Schumer said after reading the comments she was diagnosed with Cushing syndrome, whichaccording to the Mayo Clinicoccurs when the body has too much of the hormone cortisol over a long period of time. ...
“He was always able to either get the tumour operated on or have radiotherapy to have them removed. However, a couple years ago, a tumour came back, causing Cushing’s syndrome. “As we’d obviously experienced him having brain tumours in the past, it was a case again of thinking, ‘...
Surgery is currently the first-line treatment of Cushing’s disease. Surgery for Cushing’s patients requires technical specificity, especially i