Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pituitary surgery is the first line treatment for most patients with Cushing’s disease (CD) but after failure or recurrence after surgery 3 main strategies can be proposed: medical treatment (MT), a 2 nd pituitary surgery, bilateral adrenalectomy (BA). Pituitary radiotherapy is a 4th strategy, generally combined with one of the 3 others. Medical treatment (MT) emerges as an attractive strategy but there are little data on long-term control after f...

Introduction: In patients with primary aldosteronism (PA) international consensus claim that adrenal venous sampling (AVS) performs better than CT scan in determining lateralization of aldosterone secretion. The SPARTACUS study has however reported similar performances for lateralization by CT scan and AVS in patients with PA and a unilateral adrenal mass. The standard procedure for AVS uses cortisol values to validate the selectivity of catheterization and to normalize the al...