Adrenal Insufficiency and Adrenal Crisis: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

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Adrenal Insufficiency and Adrenal Crisis: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

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Overview: Adrenal crisis and severe acute adrenocortical insufficiency are often elusive diagnoses that may result in severe morbidity and mortality when undiagnosed or ineffectively treated. Although it is thought by experts that more than 50 steroids are ...

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Adrenal Crisis: eMedicine Endocrinology

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Do not confuse acute adrenal crisis with Addison disease. In 1855, Thomas Addison described a syndrome of long-term adrenal insufficiency that develops over months to years, with weakness, fatigue, anorexia, weight loss, and hyperpigmentation as the ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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