"Relative" adrenal insufficiency in critical illness

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 632-640

  Fleseriu, Maria ^a   Loriaux, D Lynn ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; ETOMIDATE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUDROCORTISONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; KETOCONAZOLE; MITOTANE; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACTINOMYCOSIS; ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL CORTEX INSUFFICIENCY; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CYST; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EOSINOPHILIA; FATIGUE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENE MUTATION; HEAD INJURY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGONADISM; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPHYSITIS; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS LESION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; IRRADIATION; LONG TERM CARE; LOW DRUG DOSE; META ANALYSIS; METASTASIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYALGIA; MYCOSIS; NAUSEA; NOCARDIOSIS; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; POSITIONAL DIZZINESS; PROVOCATION TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; RISK; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STRESS; SUPERINFECTION; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR; UREMIA; VIRUS INFECTION; VITILIGO; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BLOOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 75549089779     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP09180.RA     Document Type: Review

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