Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenal suppression and iatrogenic Cushing’s secondary to concomitant inhaled steroid and itraconazole is a potentially common and serious drug interaction. A 55 year old patient with bronchiectasis and asthma developed an exacerbation of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). He had been on inhaled fluticasone for over 2 years. He was commenced on itraconazole. The patient was on holiday 6 weeks after itraconazole was commenced when he noted that his face had be...