Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: It is known that about 75% of cases of endogenous Cushing síndorme to a pituitary adenoma (HA) ACTH-producing, 15% to ectopic ACTH and 10% is due to adrenal adenoma.Case: The patient was 64 years old, derived from Diabetes Mellitus type 2 of about 16 years of history with an unwieldy+hypertension diagnosed in 2007 with no physical signs compatible with hypercortisolism and incidentally detected a left adrenal adenoma 2 cm. Hormonal blo...

Object: Nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas can experiment recurrence and/or progression (R/P) several years after surgery in about 15–50% of patients. There is few evidence about risk factors that could predict R/P. The aim of this study is to identify them and describe our experience through a long term of follow-up in pituitary macroadenomas.Methods: Retrospective cohort analysis of 64 patients who underwent surgery between 1990 and 2013. The main ...