The recovery time of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis after curative surgery in Cushing's disease and its related factor.

Qiaoli CuiXiaoyu LiuQuanya SunWanwan SunHangping ZhengMin HeZhaoyun ZhangZengyi MaMing ShenXuefei ShouYao ZhaoYiming LiYongfei WangHongying YeShuo Zhang

Published in: Endocrine (2023)

HPA axis recovered in 73.6% of CD patients within 2 years after successful surgery, and the median recovery time was 12 months. TT3 level at diagnosis was an independent related factor of postoperative recovery of HPA axis in CD patients. Moreover, patients coexisted with other hypopituitarism at 2-year follow-up had a high probability of unrecovered HPA axis.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
prognostic factors
minimally invasive
patients undergoing
coronary artery disease
rectal cancer
surgical site infection