Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Cushing’s syndrome (CS) and hypertension (HT) are associated with alterations of coagulation. This is the first study that compares parameters of fibrin clot and fibrinolysis in CS with patients with essential hypertension (EHT) and healthy normotensive controls (HC).Methods: The patients were recruited at the university hospital of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany) and the Department of Hypertension, Institute o...