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Clinical course and outcome of patients with ACTH-dependent Cushing’s syndrome infected with novel coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19): case presentations

Z. Belaya, O. Golounina, G. Melnichenko, N. Tarbaeva, E. Pashkova, M. Gorokhov, V. Kalashnikov, L. Dzeranova, V. Fadeev, P. Volchkov, I. Dedov,
2021

Objective: To analyze the clinical presentations of patients with endogenous Cushing’s syndrome (CS) affected by Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). Materials and methods: Patients who were referred to our clinic with active CS from 31st March to 15th May 2020 were screened for COVID-19 using real-time reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Late-night serum cortisol (64–327 nmol/L), late-night salivary cortisol (LNSC) (0.5–9.4 nmol/L), or 24-h urinary free cortisol (24 hUFC) (100–379 nmol/24 h) were measured by electrochemiluminescence immunoassay. Results: Among 22 patients with active CS we found three cases affected by COVID-19. Nonspecific inflammation markers were within the reference range or slightly elevated in these patients. A 71-year-old woman with newly diagnosed CS (late-night serum cortisol >1750 nmol/L, LNSC 908.6 nmol/L) developed dyspnea as an only symptom and died from bilateral polysegmantal hemorrhagic pneumonia 7 days later. A 38-year-old woman with a 5-year medical history of active Cushing’s disease (CD) (late-night serum cortisol 581.3 nmol/L, 24 hUFC 959.7 nmol/24-h) suffered from dyspnea, cough, fever (39.3 °C) and chest pain. Oxygen therapy, antibiotics and symptomatic treatments lead to full recovery 24 days later. A 66-year-old woman with a 4-year medical history of mild CD (late-night serum cortisol 603.4 nmol/L, LNSC 10.03 nmol/L) tested positive for COVID-19 in routine screening and remained asymptomatic. Conclusions: The outcome of COVID-19 in patients with CS depends on the severity of hypercortisolism. Thus, severe hypercortisolism is a warning sign that CS affected by COVID-19 could require emergency care despite a lack of clinical presentations and low inflammation biomarkers.

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  • Z. Belaya
    Endocrinology Research Centre
  • O. Golounina
    Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
  • G. Melnichenko
    Endocrinology Research Centre
  • N. Tarbaeva
    Endocrinology Research Centre
  • E. Pashkova
    S.P. Botkin City Clinical Hospital
  • M. Gorokhov
    Endocrinology Research Centre
  • V. Kalashnikov
    Endocrinology Research Centre
  • L. Dzeranova
    Endocrinology Research Centre
  • V. Fadeev
    Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
  • P. Volchkov
    Endocrinology Research Centre, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
  • I. Dedov
    Endocrinology Research Centre
Название журнала
  • Endocrine
Том
  • 72
Выпуск
  • 1
Страницы
  • 12-19
Финансирующая организация
  • Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
Номер гранта
  • 075-15-2020-899
Тип документа
  • journal article
Тип лицензии Creative Commons
  • CC BY
Правовой статус документа
  • Свободная лицензия
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  • scopus