One milligram (mg) of dexamethasone will be administered at 11 p.m., and your blood will be drawn the following morning at 8 a.m. for a cortisol measurement. 2. High-dose overnight dexamethasone ...

His initial work-up for the possibility of hypercortisolaemia showed a completely variable pattern, with 24-hour cortisol excretion and serum cortisol post 1 mg dexamethasone suppression test ranging ...

Suppression ... practice, dexamethasone tapering schedules are often prescribed for short-term therapy, and usually consists of an empiric reduction in dose of 2-4 mg every 1-3 days, by either ...

There is no single gold-standard test to diagnose Cushing's syndrome. Current standard practice relies on the low-dose dexamethasone suppression ... of 0.5 mg dexamethasone at 6 h intervals ...