Does recovery of adrenal function occur in patients with autoimmune Addison's disease?

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 434-437

  Smans, Lisanne C C J ^a   Zelissen, Pierre M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN DERIVATIVE; CORTISONE ACETATE; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; MINERALOCORTICOID; PRASTERONE; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ADDISON DISEASE; ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; MORNING DOSAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADDISON DISEASE; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINERALOCORTICOIDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952420810     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2010.03944.x     Document Type: Article

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