Endocrine Abstracts

The definitive treatment for Cushing’s disease is curative surgery. Patients with severe disease burden will likely require pre-operative medical blockade to reduce the risk of peri- and post-operative complications. The threshold for deciding when to medically block excess cortisol is currently based on clinical judgment. Expert centres may use a different criteria to determine this. There is no widely adopted tool for evaluating the clinical severity of Cushing’s d...