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Endocrinol."],"abstract":"<jats:sec><jats:title>Introduction<\/jats:title><jats:p>Cushing\u2019s disease presents major diagnostic and management challenges. Although numerous preoperative and intraoperative imaging modalities have been deployed, it is unclear whether these investigations have improved surgical outcomes. Our objective was to investigate whether advances in imaging improved outcomes for Cushing\u2019s disease.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Searches of PubMed and EMBASE were conducted. Studies reporting on imaging modalities and clinical outcomes after surgical management of Cushing\u2019s disease were included. Multilevel multivariable meta-regressions identified predictors of outcomes, adjusting for confounders and heterogeneity prior to investigating the effects of imaging.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>166 non-controlled single-arm studies were included, comprising 13181 patients over 44 years.<\/jats:p><jats:p>The overall remission rate was 77.0% [CI: 74.9%-79.0%]. Cavernous sinus invasion (OR: 0.21 [CI: 0.07-0.66]; p=0.010), radiologically undetectable lesions (OR: 0.50 [CI: 0.37\u20130.69]; p&amp;lt;0.0001), previous surgery (OR=0.48 [CI: 0.28\u20130.81]; p=0.008), and lesions \u226510mm (OR: 0.63 [CI: 0.35\u20131.14]; p=0.12) were associated with lower remission. Less stringent thresholds for remission was associated with higher reported remission (OR: 1.37 [CI: 1.1\u20131.72]; p=0.007). After adjusting for this heterogeneity, no imaging modality showed significant differences in remission compared to standard preoperative MRI.<\/jats:p><jats:p>The overall recurrence rate was 14.5% [CI: 12.1%-17.1%]. Lesion \u226510mm was associated with greater recurrence (OR: 1.83 [CI: 1.13\u20132.96]; p=0.015), as was greater duration of follow-up (OR: 1.53 (CI: 1.17\u20132.01); p=0.002). No imaging modality was associated with significant differences in recurrence.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Despite significant improvements in detection rates over four decades, there were no significant changes in the reported remission or recurrence rates.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>A lack of controlled comparative studies makes it difficult to draw definitive conclusions. Within this limitation, the results suggest that despite improvements in radiological detection rates of Cushing\u2019s disease over the last four decades, there were no changes in clinical outcomes. 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