eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | cushing disease |
| Comorbidity | C0001430|adenoma |
| Sentences | 9 |
| PubMedID- 23553862 | Context: it is often difficult to find an adenoma in patients with cushing's disease (cd) whose preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is normal. |
| PubMedID- 24683487 | The ability of mri to detect pituitary acth-secreting adenoma in patients with cushing's disease is limited because the calculated accuracy for detecting a pituitary source of acth is reportedly around 60% with conventional mri. |
| PubMedID- 24348593 | Nelson's syndrome nowadays a rare entity results from an adrenocorticotropin (acth)-secreting pituitary adenoma in patients with refractory cushing's disease after a therapeutic bilateral adrenal gland removal. |
| PubMedID- 22918543 | This paper reviews the available literature for medical-therapy-induced adenoma volume reduction in patients with cushing's disease and reports the experience of a 53-year-old surgically, radiologically and medically naive (de novo) female with a pituitary macroadenoma who declined surgery. |
| PubMedID- 23957196 | While cushing disease, resulting from an acth-secreting adenoma, commonly manifests as weight gain with growth deceleration in children, gh excess causes gigantism with rapid, accelerated growth inappropriate for the height of the family. |
| PubMedID- 21603170 | The development of autoimmune thyroid diseases has been reported after unilateral adrenalectomy for cushing's syndrome [10], after bilateral adrenalectomy in a patient with carney's complex [11] and after removal of acth-producing pituitary adenoma in patients with cushing's disease [11]. |
| PubMedID- 25639317 | In 3 of these patients, a transformation from silent to functioning acth adenoma with manifest cushing disease occurred. |
| PubMedID- 23605695 | Pasireotide (signifor((r))) is a new subcutaneous somatostatin analogue that acts via somatostatin receptors to inhibit the secretion of corticotropin from the pituitary adenoma in patients with cushing's disease. |
| PubMedID- 25885309 | [2] of the various causes of cushing's syndrome, cushing's disease resulting from pituitary adenoma is still rare. |
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