Cushing's disease masking coincidental steroid-responsive diseases

Authors
Rehman, HU Walton, C Atkin, S
Citation
Hu. Rehman et al., Cushing's disease masking coincidental steroid-responsive diseases, POSTG MED J, 75(879), 1999, pp. 43-45
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
General & Internal Medicine
Journal title
POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL JOURNAL
ISSN journal
00325473 → ACNP
Volume
75
Issue
879
Year of publication
1999
Pages
43 - 45
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-5473(199901)75:879<43:CDMCSD>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Two cases of Gushing's disease are presented. In both cases successful trea tment was followed by the development of a steroid-responsive disease condi tion,a seronegative arthritis in the first case and retinal vasculitis in t he second. It is likely that both these conditions were unmasked! by the fa ll in the endogenous steroid levels following the successful treatment of t he Cushing's disease by trans-sphenoidal hypophysectomy.