During the first few days of September 2007, Lori had surgery to remove her adrenal gland. She experienced extreme difficulty post surgery and never recovered.
Dr. Theodore Friedman (The Wiz) will be joined by Eddie Ramirez, MD and will discuss the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine as applied to patients with Endocrine disorders
Jill wrote: 'In December 2004 my dad who had addison's for over 30 years had a triple bypass surgery 6 days before Christmas. The surgery was an amazine success and it was predicted he would be home before Christmas. Day 2 following surgery the hospital neglected to give him his steriods for his Addison's for 22 hours, which they were complete […]
I'm going to be having a total left knee replacement surgery in early February so I may not be around so much for a while. My surgeon knows I need extra steroids.
Ocular hypertension was more common in people with Cushing’s illness. The usage of steroids in the body is a major contributor to high intraocular pressure (IOP). Topical or systemic glucocorticoid use may increase the prevalence.
Dr. Theodore Friedman (The Wiz) will be joined by Eddie Ramirez, MD and will discuss the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine as applied to patients with Endocrine disorders
Cliff notes: 4 mm microadenoma in my pituitary, 3 years testing because I am cyclical, ipss, pit sx Oct 13th 2021, remission for about 8 months then recurrence. No target on mris, all my tests back high. Now I am getting a bla. Met my surgeon yesterday…
Adding a corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) stimulation test immediately following a 2-day low-dose dexamethasone suppression test (LDDST) ― what's known as a Dex-CRH test and was first introduced in 1993 ― identified Cushing disease in 5 of 65 people (7.7%) with a confirmed diagnosis but who had previously shown normal cortisol levels on a conventio […]
Among 89 patients enrolled in this study (median age, 51 years), 21 showed clinical signs of Cushing syndrome (overt hypercortisolism) and 68 did not show clinical presentations (subclinical hypercortisolism).
Transsphenoidal surgery is the first-line treatment for Cushing’s disease (CD), even with negative preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results. Some patients with persistent or recurring hypercortisolism have negative MRI findings after the initial surgery. We aimed to analyze the efficacy of repeat surgery in two groups of patients and determine i […]
Amber is from New Zealand. She was diagnosed with a pituitary tumor in 2020, and underwent surgery, several years after symptoms emerged, including rapid weight gain, muscle loss, brain fog, fatigue, depression and severe headaches.
Per the terms of the settlement, Corcept (CORT) has allowed Hikma (OTCPK:HKMPF) the rights to market a generic version of Korlym from Oct. 01, 2034, or earlier subject to certain conditions.
Patients with Cushing’s disease (CD) experienced transient central adrenal insufficiency (CAI) after successful surgery. However, the reported recovery time of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis varied and the risk factors which could affect recovery time of HPA axis had not been extensively studied. This study aimed to analyze the duration of CAI and […]
Incredible. We've known about this for how long around here? Like 20 years? I discovered it independently by trial and error before even knowing what Cushing's was.
Millie is the first Cushing’s patient that I know of to have died from complications from Swine Flu. She was only 36. Millie developed a confirmed case of the H1N1 virus. She spent 29 days in the ICU of Millard Suburban Hospital before dying of complications of the flu, compounded by Behcet’s Disease and Cushings Disease.
English: “Dr. Harvey Cushing,” oil on canvas, by the American artist Edmund Tarbell. Courtesy of the Dittrick Medical History Center. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Synopsis: 36 year old male who presented with weight gain, proximal muscle weakness, and excessive sweating. Among multiple 24-hour urine free cortisol and midnight salivary tests, a minority were minimally elevated.
The diagnosis of Cushing’s disease was questioned over an eight month evaluation period.
The challenges of diagnosing Cushing’s disease are discussed.
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