DISEASE OF CUSHING
Disease information
DISEASE OF CUSHING
The pituitaria gland is an organ of the endocrino
system
that is located in the base of the skull and regulates the corporal
activity
of many other glands and processes.
Being its
functions
, is the one in
charge
to produce hormones that influence mainly in the growth,
development
and
sexual
maturation,
but
also produces other important hormones like cortisol or hidrocortisona, also called adrenocortocotropa, that normally is released in
stress
situations and controls the form in which the body uses proteins, fats and carbohydrates.
The
disease
or
syndrome
of
Cushing
, also well - known like calculations of cistina or hipercortisolismo, affects approximately to 6 of
each
100. 000 people and it is developed when the pituitaria is invaded by
a
tumor or hiperplasia, that causes the excessive secretion of the called hormone cortisol or adrenocorticotropa that also plays
a
very important role in the control of inflammations.
This
disease
is developed mainly between the 20 and 40 years and mainly affects the women.
Between the causes that cause it they are:
the prolonged corticosteroides hormone use, like the cortisone or prednisona.
developing
a
tumor in the adrenal gland or the pituitaria, which causes that
a
greater amount of the hormone takes place cortisol.
With greater peculiarity, to suffer
cancer
in some other part of the body, mainly in the glands like the
thyroid
, ovaries, páncreas or thymus.
IMPORTANT:
The content of this note is informative and it does not replace the medical diagnosis, reason why we do not become people in
charge
on its use.
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