Acute adrenal insufficiency during pregnancy and puerperium: Case report and literature review

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 717-722

  Perlitz, Yuri ^a   Varkel, Jacob ^b   Markovitz, Jakob ^b   Ami, Moshe Ben ^b   Matilsky, Moshe ^b   Oettinger, Moshe ^b  

^a Poriya Hospital   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; C PEPTIDE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTODOXONE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GLUCOSE; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; INTERMEDIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METYRAPONE; PROLACTIN; TETRACOSACTIDE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; COMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SEIZURES;

EID: 0032710074     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006254-199911000-00023     Document Type: Review

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