The adrenal glands are stimulated by ACTH to release approximately 20 mg ... Typical doses of dexamethasone used in the brain tumor patient are pharmacologic (i.e., supraphysiologic) in nature ...

The post-op 170HP and T were normal before and after ACTH. This case illustrates that Leydig cell tumors and non-suppressible adrenal rests in CAH may be hormonally indistinguishable preoperatively.

with a mild defect in adrenal steroidogenesis, ACTH and adrenal steroid response (180 min) to ovine CRF (1 ug/kg IV bolus at 1600 hr) in 3 pt with late diagnosis of 11β-hydroxylase (11β-OH ...

Tissue sections of pancreas obtained at autopsy from 54 consecutive patients treated with ACTH or adrenal steroids ... obstruction to ducts on account of tumors, cysts, or other causes, they ...

Sabrina Gomes was diagnosed with Cushing's syndrome and a tumor in her thymus gland which has caused her skin color to change ...

Among them, 339 (2.9%) were clinically suspected of adrenal insufficiency and had an ACTH-stimulation test. Unexplained signs such as hypotension, hyperkalemia, metabolic acidosis or hyponatremia ...

Sabrina Gomes, 24, has seen her skin get progressively darker since having a surgical procedure two years ago, but has had to ...

The cancer causes ... removal of Sabrina’s adrenal glands stopped her body’s production of cortisol, the tumour has continued to stimulate the overproduction of ACTH. ACTH is biologically ...

That prompts your adrenal glands, located on top of your kidneys, to produce cortisol. A tumor on your pituitary gland can ...

This hormone instructs the pituitary gland to release adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), which tells the adrenal glands how ... is a type of pituitary gland tumor called a pituitary adenoma.

4 Other causes include ACTH-independent Cushing syndrome from an autonomous adrenal lesion, and very rarely ectopic ACTH secretion from neuroendocrine tumours such as pulmonary carcinoid tumours, ...