The Utility of Preoperative ACTH/Cortisol Ratio for the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Cushing's Disease


SELEK A., Cetinarslan B., CANTÜRK Z., Tarkun I., Akyay O. Z., ÇABUK B., ...Daha Fazla

JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCES IN RURAL PRACTICE, cilt.9, sa.1, ss.106-111, 2018 (ESCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 9 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2018
  • Doi Numarası: 10.4103/jnrp.jnrp_308_17
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCES IN RURAL PRACTICE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.106-111
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Adrenocorticotropic hormone/cortisol ratio, Cushing's disease, diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome, recurrent Cushing's disease, MACROADENOMAS, MICROADENOMAS, OUTCOMES
  • Kocaeli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Purpose: Cushing's syndrome (CS) is a rare disease having diagnostic difficulties. Many diagnostic tests have been defined but none of these are diagnostic alone. Determination of the cause is another problem which sometimes requires more sophisticated and invasive procedures. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the utility of pretreatment plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)/cortisol ratios in patients with confirmed endogenous CS for the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of CS. Materials and Methods: This retrospective evaluation included 145 patients with the diagnosis of CS, 119 patients with Cushing's disease (CD), and 26 patients with ACTH-independent CS (AICS), in a university hospital. Furthermore, 114 individuals in whom CS diagnosis was excluded with at least one negative screening test were enrolled to the study as control group. The clinical, laboratory, imaging, postsurgical pathologic records and also clinical follow-up data of all patients were evaluated. Results: The median basal ACTH/cortisol ratio of the patients with CD was significantly higher than AICS and controls. A cutoff ACTH/cortisol ratio >2.5 was found to be diagnostic for CD with 82% specificity and 63% sensitivity. Among CD group, patients with recurrent disease had higher preoperative ACTH levels and ACTH/cortisol ratio than patients with sustained remission. Furthermore, these patients had more invasive, atypical, and larger tumors. Conclusion: An ACTH/cortisol ratio >2.5 would be beneficial to diagnose CD together with other diagnostic tests. It is a simple test with no additional cost. Higher ratios might be related with larger, invasive, and atypical adenoma and also might be helpful to predict recurrence.