Adrenal insufficiency occurring during septic shock: incidence, outcome, and relationship to peripheral cytokine levels

The American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 266-271

  Soni, Anita ^a,b   Pepper, Gary M ^a,b   Wyrwinski, Piotr M ^a   Ramirez, Nelky E ^a   Simon, Ronald ^a   Pina, Teodulo ^a   Gruenspan, Harry ^a,b   Vaca, Carlos E ^a  

^a LINCOLN MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN; CYTOKINE; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIOTHYRONINE; STEROID; TETRACOSACTIDE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL;

ADRENAL GLAND HYPOFUNCTION; ADULT; AGED; CORTICOTROPIN; CYTOKINES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; REFERENCE VALUES; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

EID: 0028906714     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(99)80373-8     Document Type: Article

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