People with active Cushing’s disease have a smaller volume of gray matter — the outer layer of the brain…
Articles by Patricia Inácio, PhD
When symptoms of Cushing’s syndrome return after adrenal cancer surgery, this may indicate that tumor cells have spread to other…
A generalized skin infection due to Mycobacterium chelonae — a rapidly growing type of bacteria — may be a manifestation…
A combination of two easily performed tests reached 100% accuracy for diagnosing Cushing’s disease in people with an initial…
Cushing’s syndrome may develop in people with advanced medullary thyroid cancer and is associated with a poor prognosis, a…
In a rare case, a hormone-producing intestinal tumor led to the development of ectopic Cushing’s syndrome in a 50-year-old man,…
Cushing’s disease was successfully treated using metyrapone in a pregnant women with no harm to the unborn baby, a case-report…
A recent report described the rare case of 9-year old girl who developed Cushing’s syndrome due to a hormone-producing…
An aggressive tumor in the brain’s pituitary gland, which caused severe Cushing’s disease, was successfully treated with rounds of radiation…
Treatment with the blood thinner enoxaparin within a few hours after curative pituitary surgery may help reduce the risk of…