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Journal of Korean Society of Endocrinology ; : 489-495, 2003.
Article in Korean | WPRIM | ID: wpr-30153

ABSTRACT

Pregnancy is rare in women with Cushing's syndrome, as the associated infertility is related to excess cortisol and/or androgen. However, approximately 100 such cases have been reported, with 50% due to an adrenal cortical adenoma. Establishing a diagnosis and cause can be difficult. Clinically, striae, hypertension and gestational diabetes are common features in pregnancy, with hypertension and diabetes being the most common signs of Cushing's syndrome in pregnant women. Furthermore, biochemically, a normal pregnancy is associated with a several fold increase in plasma cortisol, as the increased cortisol production rate also increases the cortisol binding protein. Untreated, the condition results in high maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. An adrenal or pituitary adenoma should be excised, but a metyrapone, which is not teratogenic, has been effective in controlling many cases of excess cortisol. Here, a case of Cushing's syndrome, complicating a pregnancy due to an adrenal cortical adenoma, with thorough obstetric and medical management, including a metyrapone, which was adrenalectomized after delivery, is reported.


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Female , Humans , Pregnancy , Adrenocortical Adenoma , Carrier Proteins , Cushing Syndrome , Diabetes, Gestational , Diagnosis , Hydrocortisone , Hypertension , Infertility , Metyrapone , Mortality , Pituitary Neoplasms , Plasma , Pregnant Women
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J Biosci ; 1982 Sept; 4(3): 269-274
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-160157

ABSTRACT

Restraint-induced stress in rats was found to enhance steady state concentrations of whole brain and hypothalamic serotonin, at 1,2 and 4 h after immobilization. The increase was maximal at 1 h and tended to decline thereafter. The rate of accumulation of rat brain serotonin, in pargyline pretreated animals, was significantly enhanced after restraint stress. Bilateral adrenalectomy and metyrapone, an endogenous corticoid synthesis inhibitor, failed to affect restraint stress (1h)-induced increase in rat brain serotonin levels. Thus restraint stress-induced autoanalgesia and potentiation of the pharmacological actions of several centrally acting drugs, in rats, are serotonin-mediated responses. The results also indicate that restraint stress-induced effects on rat brain serotonin are not dependent on endogenous corticoid activity.

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