Clinical Case Seminar: Primary infertility in 45-year-old man with untreated 21-hydroxylase deficiency: Successful outcome with glucocorticoid therapy

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2442-2445

  Tiitinen, Aila ^a,b   Välimäki, Matti ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE; CALCIDIOL 1 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE DEFICIENCY; STEROID THERAPY; TESTIS ATROPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D3 1-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; PREGNANCY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036596309     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.87.6.2442     Document Type: Article

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