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What is the most likely cause of hirsutism, hyperglycemia, obesity, muscle wasting, and increased circulating levels of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)?

What is the most likely cause of hirsutism, hyperglycemia, obesity, muscle wasting, and increased circulating levels of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)?

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John Smith

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Answered Sep 09, 2016

Primary overproduction of acth (cushing\ s disease)-this woman has the classic symptoms of a primary elevation of adrenocorticotropic hormone (acth) [cushings disease]. elevation of acth stimulates overproduction of glucocorticoids and androgens. treatment with pharmacologic doses of glucocorticoids would produce similar symptoms, except that circulating levels of acth would be low because of negative feedback suppression at both the hypothalamic [corticotropin-releasing hormone (crh)] and anterior pituitary (acth) levels. addisons disease is caused by primary adrenocortical insufficiency. although a patient with addisons disease would have increased levels of acth (because of the loss of negative feedback inhibition), the symptoms would be of glucocorticoid deficit, not excess. hypophysectomy would remove the source of acth. a pheochromocytoma is a tumor of the adrenal medulla that secretes catecholamines.
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