Systemic illness

Pituitary

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-207

  Bondanelli, Marta ^a   Zatelli, Maria Chiara ^a   Ambrosio, Maria Rosaria ^a   degli Uberti, Ettore C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Critical illness; Dynamic tests; Pituitary function; System disease

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLUTETHIMIDE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; COLESTIPOL; COLESTYRAMINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; ESTROGEN; ETOMIDATE; FOLLITROPIN; GLUCAGON; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; KETOCONAZOLE; LIOTHYRONINE; LITHIUM SALT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEGESTROL ACETATE; METYRAPONE; PHENYTOIN; PROLACTIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACOSACTIDE; THALIDOMIDE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HEMODIALYSIS; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INSULIN TOLERANCE TEST; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PHARMACOLOGICAL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN RELEASE; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; PITUITARY FUNCTION TESTS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 43049175044     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11102-008-0112-8     Document Type: Article

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