Table 1.

Hormonal and biochemical evaluation of patient throughout hospitalization and follow-up.

	Normal range	On hospital admission	After surgery
			10 days	2 months	3 months	6 months	9 months	12 months	16 months
ACTH (pg/mL)	9–52	551	7	37	50	29.5	26	40.9	52
Morning cortisol† (µg/dL)	7–19.2	63.4	14	5.1	3.5	3.8	4.2	7.2	12.8
After 1 mg overnight dexamethasone
ACTH		583
Cortisol		60
DHEAS (µg/dL)	9.4–246	201
24-h urinalysis (µg/24 h)
Adrenaline	0–14.9	95.5
Noradrenaline	0–66	1133
Metanephrine	74–297	1927
Normetanephrine	105–354	1133
Chromogranin A	0–108	290
Renin (supine) (µU/mL)	2.4–29	3.9				14.6
Aldosterone (supine) (ng/dL)	3–15	3.4				12.5
LH (mIU/mL)*	> 10	0.3				65.8
FSH (mIU/mL)*	> 25	1.9				116
PRL (ng/mL)	3–24	13.7
FT4 (ng/dL)	0.9–1.7	1.1				1.2
FT3 (pg/mL)	1.8–4.6	1.1				2.7
TSH (µU/mL)	0.27–4.2	0.23				1.3
PTH (pg/mL)	15–65	166
Calcium (mg/dL)	8.2–10.2	8.2
Calcitonin (pg/mL)	0–10	1
Glycaemia (mg/dL)	60–110	212	69		73				83
Potassium (mEq/L)	3.5–5	2.4	3.3	3.9	4.2	3.7	5	4.4	3.9
Leucocytes (K/µL)	4.0–9.3	15.13
HbA1c (mmol/mol)	20–42	55			30
HCO3− (mEq/L)	22–26	41.8

*For menopausal age; †07:00–10:00 h.