Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Prednisolone is standard treatment of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA), but many patients are reluctant to discontinue prednisolone treatment even after remission of the inflammatory conditions. Prednisolone-induced adrenal insufficiency can give manifest or latent symptoms, causing failure to taper and withdraw prednisolone. We therefore aimed to find the prevalence of adrenal insufficiency in prednisolone-treated patients with PMR/GCA...

Introduction: Evaluation of glucocorticoid production generally requires a dynamic test. Cut-off levels for baseline cortisol concentrations predicting the outcome of a Synacthen test have been proposed for different cortisol assays. With introduction of the new Roche Elecsys Cortisol II assay, P-cortisol concentrations are expected to decrease by 20%. We have investigated cut-off levels for baseline P-cortisol concentrations measured with the Roche Elecsys Cortisol II assay t...