Patients with adrenal insufficiency face heightened risks for cardiovascular disease and mortality ... distinctively during periods of acute physiological stress, such as a heart attack. To assess how ...

Plotz, Knowlton and Ragan 5 reported 4 cases of severe hypokalemia in 31 patients with this disease. Bagshawe 4 and ... hypokalemia and neoplasms of extra-adrenal origin, and Bagshawe 7 described ...

Third, while the investigators argue for a so-called label-free approach to disease management ... might finally signal a new era of biologic therapy for the management of acute exacerbations which, ...

Secondary adrenal insufficiency can also result from long ... The AADAI website lists causes including: If an acute illness, infection, injury or medical procedure or surgery increases the body ...

He had a medical history of HIV, lipodystrophy, peripheral neuropathy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD ... before admission resulted in acute glucocorticoid withdrawal and the unmasking of ...

The mean value was used for variables measured multiple times within the preceding 24 h; (5) Assessment of illness severity upon admission using the Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPS II) and ...

Eight milligrams of triamcinolone in divided doses (2 mg. four times daily) for eight days did produce a significant decrease in mean 8-a.m. plasma 17-hydroxycorticosteroid levels (Table 1 and Fig ...

Introduction: Acute infectious disease represents a significant cause of mortality and morbidity in elderly individuals admitted to the hospital. In its extreme, it presents as sepsis, a systematic ...

resulting in either high levels or low levels of the hormones produced by the adrenal glands. Examples include pheochromocytoma and Addison disease.