An overnight dexamethasone suppression test can help you find out whether you have Cushing syndrome and what’s causing it. Find out how the test works, how it’s done, and what your result means.

However, with the advent of agents with increasing activity in multiple myeloma, such as lenalidomide and bortezomib, the necessity for high-dose dexamethasone has been questioned.

The paper by Linn and his colleagues on "failure" of dexamethasone suppression in Cushing's disease can be viewed in proper perspective if one recalls a comment attributed to the prominent newspape ...

The Low Dose Dexamethasone Suppression Test is the confirmatory blood test. For this test, a baseline blood cortisol level is measured. Your dog would then be given an injection of steroid.

LDDS stands for low-dose dexamethasone suppression and measures cortisol levels over a period of time by suppressing cortisol levels with dexamethasone.

ONE of the most widely employed tests in clinical endocrinology is the dexamethasone suppression test. The applications of this test fall into two broad classes. First of all, it helps distinguish ...