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Subclinical hypercortisolism and CT appearance in adrenal incidentalomas: a multicenter study from Southern Sweden.

[adrenal incidentaloma]

Evaluation of subclinical hypercortisolism (SH) in patients with adrenal incidentaloma (AI) including its correlation to size, attenuation at unenhanced computed tomography (CT) and unilateral or bilateral adrenal disease. Nine hospitals in Southern Sweden investigated during 2005-2007 consecutively patients with AI with hormonal and CT examinations according a regional protocol. Two hundred and twenty-eight patients with AI with median size 2.0 cm were included. One mg overnight dexamethasone suppression test (DST) was performed in 223 patients and basal P-ACTH measured in 146 patients. SH was defined as cortisol ≥ 50 nmol/l at DST in combination with basal ACTH <2 pmol/l. In patients with unilateral AI 42% (76/180) had inadequate suppression at DST and 23% (27/115) had SH. The probability for SH and inadequate suppression at DST correlated positively to size and inversely to attenuation at CT. Bilateral AI were found in 43 patients and of these 70% (30/43) had inadequate suppression at DST and 42% (13/31) SH. The patients with SH or inadequate suppression at DST had increased frequency of hypertension which increased further in patients with post-DST cortisol ≥ 140 nmol/l. The applied criterion for SH is useful for initial evaluation of patients with AI. SH is common in patients with AI, particular in bilateral disease. In patients with unilateral AI the probability for SH correlated positively to size and inversely to attenuation at CT. Furthermore, SH and the post-DST cortisol concentration was associated with hypertension.

Diseases presenting "hypertension" symptom

  • achondroplasia
  • acute rheumatic fever
  • adrenal incidentaloma
  • aniridia
  • aromatase deficiency
  • cadasil
  • child syndrome
  • cohen syndrome
  • congenital adrenal hyperplasia
  • congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • cushing syndrome
  • cystinuria
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • erythropoietic protoporphyria
  • esophageal adenocarcinoma
  • fabry disease
  • familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia
  • gm1 gangliosidosis
  • heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
  • hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis
  • holt-oram syndrome
  • homocystinuria without methylmalonic aciduria
  • hydrocephalus with stenosis of the aqueduct of sylvius
  • inclusion body myositis
  • kallmann syndrome
  • kindler syndrome
  • lamellar ichthyosis
  • lymphangioleiomyomatosis
  • pendred syndrome
  • primary effusion lymphoma
  • scrub typhus
  • severe combined immunodeficiency
  • sneddon syndrome
  • typhoid
  • von hippel-lindau disease
  • well-differentiated liposarcoma
  • werner syndrome
  • x-linked adrenoleukodystrophy
  • zellweger syndrome

This symptom has already been validated