From the desk of Lewis Blevins, MD – I remember, in the mid-1990s, when a paper was published indicating that food dependent hypercortisolism was due aberrant GIP receptor expression on the adrenal glands. Eating activates
Hyperplasia is a term that implies an increase in the number of normal cells in a gland or other tissue. Sometimes the cells themselves are also enlarged, or hypertrophic. Tissues can be hypertrophic without being
From the desk of Lewis S. Blevins, Jr. MD – A 52-year-old man was referred to the pituitary clinic for further evaluation of hypercortisolism. Has had an unspecified weight gain and hypertension. His blood pressure