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25 cases on adrenal insufficiency replacement therapy, pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma management, Cushing's syndrome and mild autonomous cortisol secretion, and congenital adrenal hyperplasia — choose a case below to open its full multi-voice debate.

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A Normal Cortisol Day Curve, Persistent Fatigue: The Case for Modified-Release Hydrocortisone

A single patient, six years into treated Addison's disease. Her cortisol day curve is normal, so the real question isn't whether she's under-replaced by the usual test, but whether a peak-and-trough dosing schedule is producing a gap that test doesn't catch.

Case 0001
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Screening Colonoscopy in Addison's Disease: Minor or Moderate Stress-Dose Coverage

A single patient with well-controlled Addison's disease facing a routine procedure whose real stress category depends on what happens mid-case, not on how it was referred.

Case 0002
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A Suppressed Renin and a New Antihypertensive: Titrating Fludrocortisone in an Elderly Patient

A single patient whose renin-guided fludrocortisone titration collides with a second medication that suppresses renin on its own, entirely apart from his adrenal regimen.

Case 0003
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DHEA in Optimally Replaced Adrenal Insufficiency: Two Guidelines, One Patient

A single patient optimally replaced on every marker the team already tracks, whose remaining symptom sits at the exact point where two guidelines from the same professional society diverge.

Case 0004
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Septic Shock and Adjunctive Corticosteroids: ADRENAL's Hydrocortisone Alone or APROCCHSS's Combination

A single patient in refractory septic shock, whose escalating vasopressor requirement sits at the point where two major trials of adjunctive corticosteroids genuinely disagree.

Case 0005
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Living Alone With Addison's Disease: When Self-Injection Training Isn't Enough on Its Own

A single patient whose recent illness was managed correctly, but whose living situation exposes a real, documented gap between being trained to self-inject and being able to when a true crisis hits.

Case 0006
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Cushing's Disease in a High-Risk Surgical Candidate: Operate Now or Bridge With Medical Therapy

A single patient with a technically curable pituitary tumor whose own hypercortisolism has made the surgery to remove it dangerously risky, forcing the team to decide how long to wait, not just whether to.

Case 0007
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Adrenal Cushing's Syndrome After Three Fractures: Adrenalectomy or Medical Management First

A single patient whose curable adrenal adenoma sits behind a real, recent fracture history that makes the cure itself dangerous, testing whether treating the hormone excess first can change that calculation.

Case 0008
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Mild Autonomous Cortisol Secretion: Adrenalectomy, Medical Trial, or Observation

A single patient whose incidentally found adrenal adenoma sits at exactly the biochemical threshold two 2024-2025 randomized trials studied, against a real, unsettled question of whether his comorbidities are actually cortisol-driven.

Case 0009
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Persistent Cushing's Disease After Surgery: Choosing Among Three Steroidogenesis Inhibitors

A single patient whose recurrent Cushing's disease has three real medical options, none of which is simply the best choice for everyone — the right one depends on which specific risk and which specific symptom matter most to her.

Case 0010
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A Large, High-Secreting Pheochromocytoma: Phenoxybenzamine or Doxazosin for Preoperative Prep

A single patient with an unusually large, high-secreting pheochromocytoma, whose case sits outside the typical patient either major alpha-blocker trial actually enrolled.

Case 0011
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Metastatic SDHB-Mutated Paraganglioma: MIBG, Sunitinib, or Belzutifan First

A single patient whose known genetic mutation shapes not just her prognosis but which of three real treatment options actually fits her tumor's specific biology.

Case 0012
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Confirmed Unilateral Primary Aldosteronism in a Surgery-Reluctant Patient

A single patient whose adrenal vein sampling confirms exactly the finding surgery cures best, set against his own repeated, informed refusal of that surgery.

Case 0013
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An Incidental Adrenal Nodule in a Frail 86-Year-Old: Does the Workup Change Anything

A single patient whose incidental, imaging-benign adrenal nodule falls under a near-universal testing recommendation written for a population very different from her own.

Case 0014
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A Borderline Adrenal Incidentaloma: How Much Surveillance Does a Negative Workup Still Need

A single patient whose entirely negative hormonal workup meets an adrenal mass that doesn't cleanly satisfy the newest guideline's own criteria for stopping imaging follow-up altogether.

Case 0015
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Adult CAH With Bone Loss on Supraphysiologic Steroids: Adding Crinecerfont

A single patient whose glucocorticoid dose has never been reducible without losing androgen control, tested against a genuinely new drug with real trial evidence but limited real-world experience.

Case 0016
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Rising Androgens in Pregnancy With Classic CAH: How Much to Increase Hydrocortisone

A single patient whose own androgen control, unrelated to any fetal CAH risk, drifts upward in pregnancy in a way that tests how much a physiologic-range dose adjustment should be trusted against a fetal-exposure literature built on a different clinical scenario.

Case 0017
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Below the Guideline's Cortisol Threshold: Hold the Steroid Taper or Continue It

A single patient whose steroid taper has stalled exactly at the point a 2024 guideline says to hold, against a newer study suggesting that threshold may be more conservative than the evidence now supports.

Case 0018
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Adrenal Crisis on Combination Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy: Primary or Secondary, and When to Treat

A single patient in acute adrenal crisis on combination checkpoint inhibitor therapy, where a single lab abnormality argues against the epidemiologically more likely diagnosis before confirmatory testing returns.

Case 0019
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A Prednisone Dose Right at the Threshold: Perioperative Steroid Coverage or Not

A single patient whose steroid dose sits precisely on the line two published frameworks define oppositely, tested against major joint replacement surgery.

Case 0020
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Gynecomastia on Spironolactone: Eplerenone or Finerenone for Bilateral Aldosteronism

A single patient whose bilateral disease rules out surgery, left choosing among three real mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists after the first-line option became intolerable.

Case 0021
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Addison's Disease at Labor: When to Start Parenteral Stress-Dose Coverage

A single patient whose antepartum adrenal management has gone smoothly, now facing labor itself — a real stressor whose duration and course can't be known in advance.

Case 0022
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New Hypothyroidism Weeks After an Adrenal Crisis: When to Start Levothyroxine

A single patient whose adrenal replacement appears stable only three weeks after the crisis that revealed it, now facing a second hormone deficiency whose treatment carries a real, specific risk to the first.

Case 0023
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Ectopic ACTH Syndrome: Bridging Severe Hypercortisolism While the Tumor Is Still Being Found

A single patient whose hypercortisolism is severe and fast-moving enough that treatment cannot wait for the slow process of finding its actual source.

Case 0024
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Adjuvant Mitotane After Low-Risk Adrenocortical Carcinoma Resection: What ADIUVO Actually Showed

A single patient in the exact population the only randomized trial of adjuvant mitotane ever studied, where the trial's own null result sits against real, ongoing treatment toxicity.

Case 0025
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