Cushing-Syndrom 2016

Rachel Carson Syndrom

For years some ecologists have been convinced that pesticides are contributing to a decline in amphibian species around the globe. From an apparent epidemic of deformed frogs in Minnesota to the near disappearance of yellow-legged frogs from California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, pesticides have been considered prime suspects. This suspicion is no doubt rooted in the belief by the ecological com...

Das Hepatopulmonale Syndrom

Harvey Cushing

Preventing Cushing: Iatrogenic Cushing Syndrome due to Ritonavir-Fluticasone Interaction

Ritonavir is commonly used in low doses to boost plasma levels of protease inhibitors in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections. It is also a potent inhibitor of cytochrome P450. We present a 50-year-old African American male with past medical history of HIV on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), which also included ritonavir and long standing asthma that has been...

Cushing ' S Syndrome

In 1932 Harvey Cushing described a number of patients presenting a similar clinical picture which he had collected from the literature, and he added two more from his own records. The presence of minute adenomata of basophil cells in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland was demonstrated at autopsy on some of them and Cushing regarded these as the causative lesions and called the syndrome 'p...