As with Cushing syndrome, Cushing disease affects more females than males ... Other risk factors can include age or living with pituitary or adrenal tumors. Although there can be a genetic ...
The goal of the treatment of Cushing's ... adrenal adenomas will be cured by unilateral adrenalectomy, while those with adrenal carcinomas will often have residual or metastatic disease after ...
Plotz, Knowlton and Ragan 5 reported 4 cases of severe hypokalemia in 31 patients with this disease ... concurrence of Cushing's syndrome, hypokalemia and neoplasms of extra-adrenal origin ...
Agents that directly lower ACTH secretion by a pituitary adenoma represent an attractive option for the treatment of Cushing's disease, as these drugs directly target the pathogenesis of disease.
Castinetti F et al. (2007) Desmopressin test during petrosal sinus sampling: a valuable tool to discriminate pituitary or ectopic ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome. Eur J Endocrinol 157: 271–277 ...
Actress and director Amy Schumer has revealed she has Cushing's Syndrome, caused by having ... require brain surgery or removal of adrenal glands," the actress told the News Not Noise newsletter.