The article discusses research being done on perioperative steroids for secondary adrenal insufficiency, with reference to a study by J. V. Glowniak and D. L. Loriaux, which appeared in the 1997 issue of "Surgery." Subjects in this study included males adults scheduled for major surgery who...
Tertiary adrenal insufficiency is the result of damage to the hypothalamus which can affect its ability to produce CRH. The most common causes for this are brain tumors, trauma to the base of the skull or sudden withdrawal from long-term use of exogenous steroids....
coupled with the presence of specific physical barriers, such as the blood‒brain barrier (BBB) and the blood‒cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCSFB), which isolate the CNS from the peripheral immune system, the CNS has always been regarded as an immune-privileged system, and the ...
(as for primary amenorrhea), inhypogonadotrophic hypogonadism(as for primary amenorrhea), vascular (Sheehan’s Syndrome),pituitary surgery, in excess sex steroid production, polycystic ovarian disease,congenital adrenal hyperplasia, virilizing tumors, androgen administration, e.g.,anabolic steroids, and...
If unrecognized, it can also cause death because of irreversible adrenal insufficiency. Primary hypophysitis encompasses a spectrum of pathologic lesions,2, 3 ranging from the most common lymphocytic and granulomatous variants to the more recently described xanthomatous,4 IgG4 plasmacytic,5 and ...
Primary adrenal insufficiency is when your adrenal glands are damaged and can’t make the cortisol you need. They also might not make enough aldosterone.This condition is often called Addison’s disease. Secondary adrenal insufficiency is more common than Addison’s disease. The condition happens be...
Primary adrenal insufficiency is when your adrenal glands are damaged and can’t make the cortisol you need. They also might not make enough aldosterone.This condition is often called Addison’s disease. Secondary adrenal insufficiency is more common than Addison’s disease. The condition happens be...
The use of on-demand therapy (salbutamol for asthma and nasal steroids/antihistamine for rhinitis) and basal therapy was markedly lower during the lockdown compared to the same period in 2019. It was observed that 94.1% of asthmatic children with on-demand therapy used less salbutamol, 5.8% ...