Fatal cytomegalovirus-associated adrenal insufficiency in an AIDS patient receiving corticosteroid therapy

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 617-620

  Uno, Kenji ^a   Konishi, Mitsuru ^a   Yoshimoto, Eiichiro ^a   Kasahara, Kei ^a   Mori, Kei ^a   Maeda, Koichi ^a   Ishida, Eiwa ^a   Konishi, Noboru ^a   Murakawa, Koichi ^b   Mikasa, Keiichi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Sekiya Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenal insufficiency; AIDS; Corticosteroid; Cytomegalovirus

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GANCICLOVIR; ITRACONAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PAZUFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AIDS PATIENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOXEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CYTOMEGALIC INCLUSION BODY DISEASE; FATALITY; HEART ARREST; MICROBIOLOGY; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; RESUSCITATION; VIROLOGY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; GANCICLOVIR; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; NECROSIS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PREDNISOLONE; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 34249688491     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.1886     Document Type: Article

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