Steroid response to adrenocorticotropin stimulation in children with human immunodeficiency virus infection

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 578-581

  Oberfield, Sharon E ^a,b,c   Kairam, Ram ^a,b,c   Bakshi, Saroj ^a,b,c   Bamji, M ^a,b,c   Bhushan, V ^a,b,c   Mayes, Darrel ^a,b,c   Levine, Lenore S ^a,b,c  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^c Endocrine Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

ALDOSTERONE; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; HYDROCORTISONE; PRASTERONE; RADIOISOTOPE; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZONA FASCICULATA;

ADRENAL CORTEX FUNCTION TESTS; ALDOSTERONE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DESOXYCORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE; INFANT; MALE; PRASTERONE;

EID: 0025276248     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem-70-3-578     Document Type: Article

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