Affiliation:
1. Neuroendocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
2. Shanghai Pituitary Tumor Center, Shanghai Neurosurgical Research Institute, Department of Neurosurgery, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, China
Abstract
AbstractContextThe diagnosis of Cushing syndrome (CS) can be challenging. It remains to be determined which diagnostic tests are the most accurate.ObjectiveTo summarize the accuracy of diagnostic tests for CS using contemporary meta-analytic techniques (hierarchical models).Data SourcesPubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews (inception until August 3, 2018).Study SelectionStudies performed in adults that determined the accuracy of one or more diagnostic tests: overnight 1-mg dexamethasone suppression test (DST), 2-day low-dose DST (2d DST), 24-hour urinary free cortisol (UFC), late-night salivary cortisol (LNSC), midnight serum cortisol (MSC), and the dexamethasone-suppressed CRH (dex-CRH) and desmopressin (dex-DDAVP) tests.Data ExtractionTwo authors independently extracted data and performed methodological assessments.Data SynthesisOne hundred thirty-nine studies (14 140 participants) were included in the analysis. The respective sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio, and negative likelihood ratio (95% confidence interval [CI]) estimates include the following: DST 98.6% (96.9%-99.4%), 90.6% (86.4%-93.6%), 10.5 (7.2-15.3), and 0.016 (0.007-0.035); 2d DST 95.3% (91.3%-97.5%), 92.8% (85.7%-96.5%), 13.2 (6.47-27.1), and 0.051 (0.027-0.095); UFC 94.0% (91.6%-95.7%), 93.0% (89.0%-95.5%), 13.3 (8.47-21.0), and 0.065 (0.046-0.092); LNSC 95.8% (93.%-97.2%), 93.4% (90.7%-95.4%), 14.6 (10.3-20.7), and 0.045 (0.030-0.066); MSC 96.1% (93.5%-97.6%), 93.2% (88.1%-96.3%), 14.2 (7.96-25.2), and 0.042 (0.026-0.069); and dex-CRH 98.6% (90.4%-99.8%), 85.9% (67.6%-94.7%), 7.0 (2.80-17.6), and 0.016 (0.002-0.118). A single study evaluated dex-DDAVP. Meta-regression and a novel network meta-analytic approach suggest that DST is the most sensitive while UFC is the least sensitive.ConclusionsAll of the included diagnostic tests for CS are highly sensitive and specific. It appears that the DST is the most sensitive while the UFC is less sensitive. The specificity of all first-line tests appears comparable.
Subject
Biochemistry (medical),Clinical Biochemistry,Endocrinology,Biochemistry,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
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