Эндокринная хирургия (Dec 2016)

Factors predicting the outcomes of removal of corticotropinom in Cushing's disease

  • Evgenia I. Marova,
  • Galina S. Kolesnikova,
  • Svetlana D. Arapova,
  • Aleksandr U. Grigorjev,
  • Anastasia M. Lapshina,
  • Galina A. Melnichenko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14341/serg2016420-30
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 4
pp. 20 – 30

Abstract

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Background. Cushings disease (CD) is the heavy disease of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. The cause of the disease is pituitary adenoma (corticotropinoma). Hypersecretion of ACTH by a pituitary adenoma leads to increased secretion of cortisol by the adrenal cortex and the development of total endogenous hypercortisolism. The gold standard treatment for this disease is surgical removal of corticotropinoma. However, adenomectomy is not effective in all cases and approximately 20% of cases after the radical treatment fails to achieve remission of the disease and then comes the relapse. Aims. The aim of our work was to evaluate the factors influencing the result of adenomectomy in patients with the Cushings disease and identification of recurrence predictors. Materials and methods. The study included 84 patients (80 women and 4 men), aged 18 to 58 years with a Cushings disease (CD) before and after the transnasal adenomectomy. The observation period from 3 to 15 years, starting in 2001 (average 9.0 years). There was a retrospective evaluation of clinical and hormonal (ACTH and cortisol) factors before surgery and 13 days and 813 days after surgery. Results. Remission of the disease developed in 54 (64.3%) of the 84 patients with CD after transnasal adenomectomy. Surgical treatment was not effective in 30 patients (35.7%), and they had a repeat adenomectomy. According MRI of the brain among patients with remission of the disease was more frequently found pituitary microadenomas (54%), compared with patients in whom operation was not effective, and MRI were more frequent in macroadenomas (63%). All patients with CD regardless of the outcome of neurosurgical operations was observed a significant decrease of cortisol and ACTH in the early postoperative period. Conclusions. Factors of efficiency of adenomectomy and long-term remission in patients with CD is the levels of morning cortisol less than 100 nmol/l and ACTH of less than 10,0 pg/ml in the early postoperative period (113 days). The presence of adrenal insufficiency after adenomectomy is a predictor of the effectiveness of the operation, but does not exclude the likelihood of relapse.

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