Laboratory findings evolution
| Normal range | With corticosteroids | Without corticosteroids (since Jul 2013) | |||||||
| January 2013, 40 years old* | May 2013 | September 2013 | February 2014, 41 years old | September 2014 | March 2015, 42 years old | December 2015 | April 2017, 44 years old | ||
| ACTH (pg/mL) | 0–46 | <5 | <5 | 10.5 | 21.4 | 16 | 17.9 | 26.4 | |
| Serum cortisol (μg/dL) | 4.3–23 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 12.2 | 9.1 | 10.4 | 20.5 | |
| Urinary cortisol (μg/24 hours) | 55.5–286 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 84 | 194 | |||
| FSH (U/L) | 1.4–18.1 | 36.6 | 26.3 | 25.0 | 27.2 | 30.0 | |||
| LH (U/L) | 1.5–9.3 | 12.7 | 12.7 | 13.7 | 15.9 | 13.0 | |||
| Total testosterone (ng/dL) | 240–830 | 465 | 309 | 290 | 337 | ||||
| Free testosterone (pg/mL) | 6.6–23 | 2.0 | 5.4 | 5.1 | 5.6 | 9.3 | |||
| SHBG (nmol/L) | 10–57 | 64.2 | 67.6 | 54.9 | 69.0 | ||||
*At this time the diagnosis of exogenous Cushing syndrome was made, and the patient started reducing the dose of corticosteroids.
ACTH, adrenocorticotropic hormone; FSH, follicle-stimulating hormone; LH, luteinising hormone; SHBG, sexhormone-binding globulin.