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The Cushing’s Hub Editorial Board is delighted to announce the release of the webcast from the second event in the Cushing’s Hub Webinar Series – Explore Real-World Clinical Scenarios in Mild Autonomous Cortisol Secretion (MACS) – held on Tuesday 24 October.
Chaired by Dr Susan M. Webb, Barcelona, Spain, this webcast sees panelists Assoc. Prof. Iacopo Chiodini, Milan, Italy and Dr Irina Bancos, Rochester, MN, USA, discuss, using a case-centred approach, the clinical management of low-grade excessive cortisol secretion and take questions from the audience.
This module describes a case of Cushing’s syndrome in a 67-year-old woman, an age when disease characteristics may vary from those seen in younger patients.
Salivary cortisol may be a suitable alternative to serum cortisol when testing for adrenal insufficiency, suggests research showing high diagnostic accuracy on the cosyntropin test.
Cyclic Cushing's syndrome presents with phases of hypercortisolism (peaks) and physiological cortisol secretion (troughs). This Publication Highlight summarizes a systematic review of 118 articles set up to identify common features to help physicians avoid misdiagnoses or missed diagnoses.
