High rate of persistent/recurrent disease among patients with differentiated thyroid cancer in Saudi Arabia: factors affecting nonremission.

Background And Objectives: A fairly high number of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) in our center had locally advanced disease at presentation and/or persistent disease after standard treatment. Therefore, we conducted a retrospective study to find the rate of successful ablation and remission and the factors affecting these outcomes.

Methods: The study included 100 consecutively treated patients (20 males, 80 females; median age 36 years) diagnosed with DTC.

Severe hypertension secondary to renal artery stenosis and Cushing's syndrome.

We present an unusual patient who simultaneously had severe renal artery stenosis RAS and Cushing's syndrome. The case highlights the difficulty of reaching a specific diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome and the possible interaction between Cushing's syndrome and some other concurrent illnesses that this patient had. A 37-year old man presented with severe hypertension HTN and uncontrolled diabetes mellitus DM without clear physical signs of Cushing's syndrome.