Addison's disease induced by miliary tuberculosis and the administration of rifampicin

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1297-1300

  Yokoyama, Toshinobu ^a   Toda, Reiko ^a   Kimura, Yoshizo ^a   Mikagi, Makiko ^a   Aizawa, Hisamichi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Addision' s disease; Adrenal crisis; Adrenal gland tuberculosis; Miliary tuberculosis; Rifampicin

Indexed keywords

11 HYDROXYCORTICOSTEROID; 17 OXOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RENIN; RIFAMPICIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADDISON DISEASE; ADRENAL CORTEX INSUFFICIENCY; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DECREASED APPETITE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOCHLOREMIA; HYPONATREMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALAISE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIDE EFFECT; STEROID URINE LEVEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADDISON DISEASE; ADRENAL GLAND DISEASES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; RIFAMPIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, ENDOCRINE; TUBERCULOSIS, MILIARY;

EID: 70349545580     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.1974     Document Type: Article

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