Cabergoline for Cushing's disease: A case report.

Limited value of cabergoline in Cushing's disease: a prospective study of a 6-week treatment in 20 patients.

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE The role of cabergoline in Cushing's disease (CD) remains controversial. The experience is limited to case reports and few open studies that report the effects determined after ≥1 month of treatment. In prolactinomas and dopamine-responsive GH-secreting tumours, effects of cabergoline are seen within days or weeks. Here, we searched for short-term effects of cabergoline in...

Pasireotide alone or with cabergoline and ketoconazole in Cushing's disease.

Cabergoline monotherapy in the long-term treatment of Cushing's disease.

BACKGROUND Cabergoline is a long-acting dopamine receptor agonist used to treat prolactinomas. Identification of D(2) receptors in corticotroph tumors led to clinical trials of cabergoline therapy in limited cases of Nelson's syndrome, ectopic ACTH-secreting tumors, and recently Cushing's disease (CD). OBJECTIVE To evaluate the long-term efficacy of cabergoline monotherapy in patients with CD...

Remission with Cabergoline in Adolescent Boys with Cushing’s Disease

Cabergoline is a long-acting dopamine receptor agonist used for treatment of patients with uncured Cushing's disease (CD) and, as a first-line treatment, was used in only limited numbers of patients. This report presents two adolescent boys with CD who were treated with cabergoline. Two adolescent boys with clinical and laboratory findings of CD are presented. No pituitary adenoma was detected ...

Cushing’s Disease and High Dose Cabergoline Monotherapy: Rapid and Sustained Clinical and Biochemical Improvement, with Reversal of Diabetes, Hypertension and Infertility

Aims: To assess the effects of high dose long term cabergoline monotherapy in a patient with Cushing's disease refusing any form of surgical intervention. Presentation of the Case: A 32-year-old Omani female with hypertension, diabetes mellitus and secondary infertility of 10 years and amenorrhoea of 2 years duration, was referred with recurrent thigh abscesses. She was on 100 units of mixed in...