Table 1.

Preoperative and postoperative biochemical evaluation in the presented case

Laboratory values	Patient
	Preoperative	Postoperative day 1	Postoperative 6 weeks
Sodium (133–145 mmol/l)	140		139
Potassium (3.3–5.1 mmol/l)	3.6		4.5
Renin (0.25–5.82 ng/ml per h)	0.25		0.5
Aldosterone (<32 ng/dl)	11		6
ACTH (6–50 pg/ml)	16		35
Cortisol (6.7–22.6 μg/dl)	16.1	1.0	10.9
Cortisol after low-dose DST test (normal suppression <1.8 μg/dl)	3.9
DHEA-S (80–560 μg/dl)	<30
24-h urinary free cortisol (4–50 μg/24 h)	3.8
Midnight salivary cortisol (reference value <0.090 μg/dl)	Salivary #1: 0.110
	Salivary #2: 0.140
	Salivary #3: 0.220