Retraction Note: Fatal factitious Cushing syndrome (Münchhausen’s syndrome) in a patient with macroprolactinoma and silent corticotrophinoma: case report and literature review

Minanni, Carlos André; Cardoso, Ana Luiza De Almeida; Albuquerque, Edoarda Vasco de Albuquerque; Brito, Luciana Pinto; Lopes, Ludmilla Malveira Lima; Glezer, Andréa; Verduguez, Elisa Del Rosario Ugarte; Mendonça, Berenice Bilharinho; Bronstein, Marcello D.; Machado, Márcio Carlos; Fragoso, Maria Candida Barisson Villares

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“…Factitious disorder, also known as Münchhausen’s syndrome, is a psychiatric disorder resulting in patients deliberately fabricating signs and symptoms of an illness. Descriptions of factitious Cushing’s syndrome are infrequent and cases involve the use of various exogenous corticosteroids ( 32 , 33 ). Steroids can be either conventionally used as drugs or added to already collected specimens (for example urine).…”

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“…Urine samples can be assessed using high-performance liquid chromatography ( 33 ) and/or gas chromatography-mass spectrometry which proved to be useful in tracking a variety of steroids, and cortisol breakdown products can be measured in urine as well ( 13 ). As fatal cases of factitious hypercortisolemia were reported ( 32 ), patients suspected of Münchhausen’s syndrome should be promptly examined by an experienced psychiatrist and appropriate assistance should be offered to them.…”

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Cyclic Cushing’s Syndrome – A Diagnostic Challenge

Świątkowska−Stodulska

Berlińska

Stefańska

et al. 2021

Front. Endocrinol.

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Cyclic Cushing’s syndrome (also known as intermittent or periodic) is a disease characterized by periods of transient hypercortisolemia shifting into periods of normo- and/or hypocortisolemia. Diagnosis of cyclic Cushing’s syndrome is based on at least three periods of confirmed hypercortisolemia interspersed by two periods of normocortisolemia. Cyclic Cushing’s syndrome is one of the greatest challenges in modern endocrinology due to its diverse clinical picture, unpredictable duration and frequency of phases, and various etiologies. We discuss a diagnostic algorithm for periodic hypercortisolemia with special regard to hair cortisol analysis and desmopressin stimulation test which both seem to be helpful in finding the correct answer.

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