Dexamethasone provided 4 mg at every 6 hours, the usual initial dose—equivalent to 400 mg of cortisol per day—is about 20 times the normal rate of endogenous production. In patients who have ...

For the LDDST, a diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome is excluded if patients' serum cortisol levels are suppressed to ≤50 nmol/l, after the administration of 0.5 mg dexamethasone at 6 h intervals ...

Nearly a quarter of patients with difficult-to-control type 2 diabetes have hypercortisolism, with even higher prevalence ...

Corticosteroid drugs: When corticosteroids such as prednisone or dexamethasone are used for a long term, they lead to high ...

So, a urinary cortisol test, salivary test, low-dose dexamethasone suppression test, high-dose dexamethasone suppression test, MRI, CT scan, and a Bilateral inferior petrosal sinus sampling can be ...

Two studies published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism have found that adrenalectomy significantly ...