The low-dose (1g) cosyntropin test (LDT) for primary adrenocortical insufficiency: Defining the normal cortisol response and report on first patients with addison disease confirmed with LDT

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 151-157

  Pura, M ^a   Kreze, A ^b   Kento, P ^a   Vauga, P ^a  

^a National Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetology   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BULOVKA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Addison disease; Age; Cosyntropin; Low dose test (LDT); Primary adrenocortical insufficiency; Weight

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; TETRACOSACTIDE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADDISON DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LOW DOSE COSYNTROPIN TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; BLOOD; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADDISON DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY SURFACE AREA; COSYNTROPIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; STEROID 21-HYDROXYLASE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949507722     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1202275     Document Type: Article

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