Pituitary-adrenal responses to human corticotropin-releasing hormone in critically ill patients

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 454-459

  Dimopoulou, Ioanna ^a,b   Alevizopoulou, Panagiota ^b   Dafni, Urania ^b   Orfanos, Stylianos ^b   Livaditi, Olga ^b   Tzanela, Marinella ^b   Kotanidou, Anastasia ^b   Souvatzoglou, Emmanouil ^b   Kopterides, Petros ^b   Mavrou, Irini ^b   Thalassinos, Nikolaos ^b   Roussos, Charis ^b   Armaganidis, Apostolos ^b   Tsagarakis, Stylianos ^b  

^a National and Kapodistrian University of Athens ^*  (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corticotropin; Cortisol; Critical illness; Cytokines; Human corticotropin releasing hormone; Interleukin 6

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYTOKINE; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATED PATIENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY-ADRENAL FUNCTION TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847373791     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-006-0491-0     Document Type: Article

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