Clinical Study
Perioperative Endocrine Therapy for Patients with Cushing's Syndrome Undergoing Retroperitoneal Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy
Table 2
Patients’ postoperative characteristics.
| | Items | Information on day 1 postoperatively | Information on day 5 postoperatively |
| | Serum cortisol on 8 AM (range, mean) | 61.5–182.7 nmoL/L | 133.1–302.8 nmoL/L | | ( nmoL/L) | ( nmoL/L) | | Serum ACTH on 8 AM (range, mean) | 0.1–1.3 ng/L | 0.3–3.0 ng/L | | ( ng/L) | ( ng/L) | Hypokalemia (, range, mean)
| 11, 3.07–3.46 mmoL/L | None | | (mean, mmoL/L) | | | Confusionorcoma () | None | None | | Diarrhea () | None | None | | Nausea and vomiting () | 3 | None | | Headache () | None | None | | Weight loss () | None | 4 | | Generalized body aching (myalgia, arthralgia, and abdominal pain, ) | None | None | | Weakness and drowsiness () | None | None | | Orthostatic hypotension () | None | None | | Fever and skin desquamation () | 8 (slight) | None |
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