Table 2.

Patients' postoperative characteristics.

Items	Information on day 1 postoperatively	Information on day 5 postoperatively
Serum cortisol on 8 AM (range, mean)	61.5–182.7 nmoL/L	133.1–302.8 nmoL/L
	(119.6 ± 25.4 nmoL/L)	(213.5 ± 47.6 nmoL/L)
Serum ACTH on 8 AM (range, mean)	0.1–1.3 ng/L	0.3–3.0 ng/L
	(0.7 ± 0.3 ng/L)	(1.3 ± 0.5 ng/L)
Hypokalemia (n, range, mean)	11, 3.07–3.46 mmoL/L	None
	(mean, 3.27 ± 1.3 mmoL/L)
Confusionorcoma (n)	None	None
Diarrhea (n)	None	None
Nausea and vomiting (n)	3	None
Headache (n)	None	None
Weight loss (n)	None	4
Generalized body aching (myalgia, arthralgia, and abdominal pain, n)	None	None
Weakness and drowsiness (n)	None	None
Orthostatic hypotension (n)	None	None
Fever and skin desquamation (n)	8 (slight)	None