Review Article
Screening for Cushing Syndrome at the Primary Care Level: What Every General Practitioner Must Know
Table 2
Preferred screening tests in special circumstances [
2,
9,
15].
| | Situations | Test preferred | Test not preferred |
| | Cyclic Cushing’s syndrome [21] | UFC or LNSC | DST | | Mild Cushing’s syndrome [21] | LNSC or DST | UFC | | Pseudo Cushing’s syndrome [21] | LNSC or DST | UFC | | CS patients on antiepileptics [21] | UFC or LNSC | DST | | Adrenal incidentaloma [21] | DST | UFC or LNSC | | Pregnancy [21] | UFC | DST, LNSC | | Severe chronic kidney disease [21] | DST or LNSC | UFC | | Low pretest probability [15] | UFC | | | High pretest probability [15] | LNSC | |
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UFC: urinary free cortisol; LNSC: late-night salivary cortisol; DST: dexamethasone suppression test.
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