Treatment of Cushing’s Syndrome : What Place for Medical Treatment?
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Cushing’s syndrome is associated with serious morbidity and increased mortality. Irrespective of its cause, i.e. a pituitary adenoma, ectopic ACTH production or an adrenal neoplasia, Cushing’s syndrome is primarily treated surgically. However, when surgery is unsuccessful or contraindicated, medical therapy is needed to treat hypercortisolism. The spectrum of available drugs includes adrenal-bl...
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Dopamine (DA) is a catecholamine with a wide range of functions and whose five subtype receptors are found in different organs where they exert a mainly inhibitory action. Since this action may also appear in a number of secretory tumors in various locations, DA agonists have elicited some interest as a medical treatment for hypercorticism. Non-iatrogenic Cushing’s syndromes are due in 70% of t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Endocrinologica (Bucharest)
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1841-0987,1843-066X
DOI: 10.4183/aeb.2019.237