Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An assessment of free cortisol after a dexamethasone suppression test could add value to the diagnostic workup ...

A dexamethasone suppression test is primarily used to help diagnose Cushing syndrome. Cushing syndrome indicates that you have an abnormally high level of cortisol. Cortisol is a steroid hormone ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Measuring 24-hour urinary free cortisol with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry is the most accurate ...

In a retrospective cohort of patients with adrenal incidentalomas, plasma cortisol level after a 1-mg dexamethasone suppression test (DST) had a linear relationship with mortality risk, reported ...

Mortality is two to three times higher in patients with adrenal incidentalomas who have autonomous cortisol secretion levels of 83 nmol/L (3 µg/dL) or more after a 1 mg dexamethasone suppression test ...

IN most patients with Cushing's disease ∥ urinary 17-hydroxycorticosteroids (17OHCS) are readily suppressed by 8 mg. of dexamethasone per day. However, Liddle, 1 in 1960, predicted that the excessive ...

ONE of the most widely employed tests in clinical endocrinology is the dexamethasone suppression test. The applications of this test fall into two broad classes. First of all, it helps distinguish the ...