ea0029p1500 | Pituitary Clinical | ICEECE2012
Paoletta A
, Billeci D
, Fallo F
We report a case of Cushings disease associated to nephrotic syndrome. A 21-year old female was admitted to Cittadella-Hospital due to recent occurrence of weight gain, acne, hirsutism, amenorrhea and mild hypertension. Physical examination revealed truncal obesity, moon face, buffalo hump and a bilateral ankle edema. Suspected hypercortisolism was confirmed by elevated 24 h urinary cortisol (385 μg/24 h, normal range 32250 μg/24 h) and failure to suppres...