High levels of circulating adrenomedullin in severe illness: Correlation with C-reactive protein and evidence against the adrenal medulla as site of origin

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 156-162

  Ehlenz, K ^a   Koch, B ^a   Preuss, P ^b   Simon, B ^a   Koop, I ^b   Lang, R E ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adrenomedullin; Hypoglycemia; Plasma levels; Sepsis; Shock; Tumor patients

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ADRENOMEDULLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS;

EID: 0030742931     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1211745     Document Type: Article

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