2020
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2020.00557
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High Molecular Weight ACTH-Precursor Presence in a Metastatic Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Causing Severe Ectopic Cushing's Syndrome: A Case Report

Abstract: Ectopic ACTH-secretion causing Cushing's syndrome is unusual and its diagnosis is frequently challenging. The presence of high-molecular-weight precursors throughout pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) translation by these tumors is often not reported. We present the case of a 49-year-old woman with a 3-month history of proximal muscular weakness, skin pigmentation, and weight loss. Upon initial evaluation, she had a full moon face, hirsutism, and a buffalo hump. Laboratory workup showed hyperglycemia, hypokalemia and… Show more

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“…On the other hand, hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) stimulates POMC gene expression in the pituitary gland, most of its actions being mediated by CRF1R and CRF2R receptors; CRH expression and its receptors in addition to POMC expression have also been identified in skin and mucosa, confirming a complex interaction between glucocorticoid axes and the cutaneomucosal system [ 15 ]. Conditions with POMC- and ACTH-associated pigmentation lesions include AD and Nelson’s syndrome (which develops in Cushing’s disease after bilateral adrenalectomy—typically a last option of therapy when all the other well-known methods have been unsuccessful), both of them underlying pituitary ACTH anomalies, while nonpituitary ACTH disorders include paraneoplastic (ectopic) Cushing’s syndrome, which particularly accompanies some types of neuroendocrine neoplasia and lung cancers that may produce abnormal ACTH with skin actions [ 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ].…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On the other hand, hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) stimulates POMC gene expression in the pituitary gland, most of its actions being mediated by CRF1R and CRF2R receptors; CRH expression and its receptors in addition to POMC expression have also been identified in skin and mucosa, confirming a complex interaction between glucocorticoid axes and the cutaneomucosal system [ 15 ]. Conditions with POMC- and ACTH-associated pigmentation lesions include AD and Nelson’s syndrome (which develops in Cushing’s disease after bilateral adrenalectomy—typically a last option of therapy when all the other well-known methods have been unsuccessful), both of them underlying pituitary ACTH anomalies, while nonpituitary ACTH disorders include paraneoplastic (ectopic) Cushing’s syndrome, which particularly accompanies some types of neuroendocrine neoplasia and lung cancers that may produce abnormal ACTH with skin actions [ 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ].…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Пухлини підшлункової залози -переважно (80%) неактивні NET, що секретують АКТГ, є рідкісними, агресивними й складними для лікування захворюваннями з дуже поганим прогнозом [27,45,55]. Відмічають потенціал таких NET до дедиференціювання та переходу від неактивних до гормонсекретуючих, що може ускладнити діагностику та лікування [58].…”
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“…Вважають, що корисним тестом може бути також визначення рівня попередників АКТГ, бо, як вказано вище, ектопічні АКТГ-секретуючі пухлини, зазвичай, не повною мірою синтезують АКТГ з POMC, що призводить до збільшення вмісту останнього в кровообігу [45]. Встановлено, що співвідношення між концентрацією POMC чи про-АКТГ і рівня АКТГ у крові хворих з EAS вище порівняно з таким у пацієнтів із хворобою Кушинга [46].…”
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