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Endocrine System Diseases > Adrenal Gland Diseases > Adrenocortical Hyperfunction > Cushing Syndrome

Preferred term

Cushing Syndrome  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Cushing's Syndrome
  • Hypercortisolism
  • Syndrome, Cushing's

Note

  • do not confuse with CUSHING DISEASE see PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION

Scope note

  • A condition caused by prolonged exposure to excess levels of cortisol (HYDROCORTISONE) or other GLUCOCORTICOIDS from endogenous or exogenous sources. It is characterized by upper body OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; HYPERTENSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; HIRSUTISM; AMENORRHEA; and excess body fluid. Endogenous Cushing syndrome or spontaneous hypercortisolism is divided into two groups, those due to an excess of ADRENOCORTICOTROPIN and those that are ACTH-independent.

History note

  • 99(66)

In other languages

  • Cushingin oireyhtymä

    Finnish

  • Cushing
  • Cushingin syndrooma
  • Cushingin tauti
  • hyperglukokortikoidismi
  • hyperkortisolismi
  • morbus Cushing
  • määrittämätön Cushingin oireyhtymä
  • ospecificerat Cushings syndrom
  • syndroma Cushing
  • syndroma Cushing non specificatum
  • Cushings syndrom

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003480

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