Cushing’s Syndrome

1. Front Matter

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2. Physiology of the HPA Axis

   • Yutaka Oki

   Pages 1-28

3. Clinical Manifestations and Presentation of Cushing’s Syndrome

   • A Brew Atkinson

   Pages 29-44

4. Psychiatric Manifestations of Cushing’s Syndrome

   • Peter T. Loosen

   Pages 45-64

5. A Rational Approach to the Patient Suspected of Having Cushing’s Syndrome

   • Michael Fowler, Lewis S. Blevins Jr.

   Pages 65-70

6. Evaluation of Cushing’s Syndrome

   • John Newell-Price, Mike Besser

   Pages 71-97

7. Assay Methods in Cushing’s Syndrome

   • Wendell Nicholson, Robert J. Workman

   Pages 99-125

8. ACTH Secreting Pituitary Adenomas

   • Marie-Laure Raffin-Sanson, Yves de Keyzer, Xavier Bertagna

   Pages 127-183

9. Syndrome of Ectopic ACTH Hypersecretion

   • William J. Kovacs

   Pages 185-200

10. Cushing’s Syndrome Due to Adrenal Disorders

    • Lewis S. Blevins Jr.

    Pages 201-227

11. Aberrant Hormone Receptors

    • André Lacroix, Johanne Tremblay, Pavel Hamet

    Pages 229-263

12. Transsphenoidal Surgery for Cushing’s Disease

    • Robert J. Weil, George S. Allen

    Pages 265-278

13. Perioperative Evaluation and Management

    • T. Joseph McKenna

    Pages 279-299

14. Radiation Therapy in the Management of Cushing’s Disease

    • Anthony J. Cmelak

    Pages 301-320

15. Adrenal Surgery for Cushing’s

    • Richard E. Goldstein

    Pages 321-334

16. The Medical Management of Cushing’s Syndrome

    • Tom Kason, Lewis S. Blevins Jr.

    Pages 335-341

17. Back Matter

    Pages 343-344

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Cushing's Syndrome provides the reader with an update on the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with Cushing's syndrome. Molecular mechanisms of pituitary and adrenal causes of Cushing's syndrome are reviewed in detail. Successful diagnostic and treatment strategies that have been employed by readers in the field are recommended and discussed. Numerous advances in the pathophysiology and diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome speak to the timeliness of this volume that has been penned by experts in the field.

• ACTH
• hormone
• hormone receptors
• physiology
• receptor
• diabetes

"Cushing's Syndrome is a welcome additon to the literature on a subject that remains among the most difficult and challenging in endocrinology. [...] well-presented review of the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of Cushing's syndrome and was written by some of the leading experts in the field. ...the audience for this book is not experts in the field but rather fellows-in-training, general practitioners, and endocrinologists in practice. I recommend it to them wholeheartedly. I also would suggest this book to patients with Cushing's syndrome as well as to academic physicians who are interested in the clinical and molecular investigation of this disorder, both as a first step and as a guide to the intricacies and controversies surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of endogenous hypercortisolemia in humans."
(The New England Journal of Medicine, 349:8 (2003)

• The Pituitary Center at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA

  Lewis S. Blevins

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