Remission of Cushing's Disease With Growth Hormone Replacement
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Date
2011
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Churchill Livingstone
Abstract
Treatment of Cushing's disease is often challenging. The success rates are not satisfactory and therapeutic interventions frequently causes hypopituitarism. We present three cases of remitting Cushing's disease complicated with growth hormone deficiency. Surprisingly, growth hormone replacement resulted in complete clinical and laboratory remission of Cushing's disease in these patients. However, one of the patients died of myocardial infarction. Effects of growth hormone on cortisol metabolism are discussed. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Cushing'S Disease, Growth Hormone
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Q4
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Q3
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21
Issue
4
Start Page
238
End Page
241