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The Korean Academy of Family Medicine, Korean Journal of Family Medicine, 4(34), p. 289, 2013

DOI: 10.4082/kjfm.2013.34.4.289

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A Case of Incidentally Discovered Subclinical Cushing Syndrome in a Patient with Chronic Fatigue and Anxiety

Journal article published in 2013 by Kyung-Jee Nam, Yun-Jin Kim, Sang-Yeoup Lee ORCID, Jeong-Gyu Lee ORCID, Young-Hye Cho, Yu-Hyun Lee, Eun-Jung Choi, Young-Jin Tak, Dong-Won Yi, Sung-Woo Park, Dong-Wook Jeong
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Abstract

Subclinical Cushing syndrome (SCS) is a hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis abnormality characterized by autonomous cortisol secretion in patients with no typical signs or symptoms of Cushing syndrome. SCS patients may have adverse metabolic and cardiovascular effects due to slight, but continuous glucocorticoid secretion. Glucocorticoids also affect behavior, mood, neural activity, and a number of specific biochemical processes in the central nervous system. Here, we report a case of SCS due to an adrenal incidentaloma in a hypertensive diabetic patient who presented with chronic fatigue and anxiety that disappeared after the removal of the adrenal adenoma.