Endocrine Abstracts

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Recent years have seen major advances in our understanding of the causes of adrenal and pituitary Cushing’s syndrome. Careful molecular analyses have yielded new information about the underlying cellular mechanisms leading to the excess secretion of ACTH from the pituitary or cortisol from the adrenal. Unpicking these mechanisms has allowed proposals for new clinical trials of medical treatments for Cushing’s disease. Intriguingly, inherited germ line mutations appea...

During this presentation I would like to share my Cushing’s journey with you. Having found it difficult to achieve a diagnosis, despite a deterioration in my health, I was both relieved and terrified when I was finally told I had a pituitary tumour, which was driving the production of excess cortisol.Whilst being extremely grateful for the specialist treatment I received, and my continual monitoring, I welcomed this opportunity to explain what a dia...