Endocrinologists in Europe and the United States have come together to produce joint guidance to help clinicians manage patients who have, or are a at risk for, glucocorticoid-induced adrenal ...

Q: I’m interested in learning about Addison’s disease and its treatment. I believe my daughter had an adrenal crisis, but no doctor checks her bloodwork because, I believe, she’s young and looks fine ...

Management of classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) can be a lifelong balancing act, but the most feared life-threatening complication is an acute adrenal insufficiency, also known as an ...

Long-term use of glucocorticoids may result in glucocorticoid-induced adrenal insufficiency. In this study, only about one in 50 patients who stopped prednisolone were diagnosed with ...

An Addisonian crisis happens when the body cannot produce enough cortisol during a sudden stress event. It typically occurs in people with Addison’s disease and requires immediate medical treatment.

A study into the use of an at-home test which uses saliva rather than blood to diagnose adrenal insufficiency, which has been developed by scientists at the University of Sheffield with funding from ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Providers should educate patients when prescribing glucocorticoid therapy. Tapering off glucocorticoids should ...

THE treatment of adrenal crisis has become an increasingly important topic for surgeons and internists. This derives from the ever-widening use of adrenalectomy as a therapeutic procedure in a variety ...

LOS ANGELES — Opioid-induced adrenal insufficiency (OIAI) is a potentially serious and under-recognized danger from chronic opioid use that is likely to be on the rise given the current opioid ...

The recognition of various disorders that cause adrenal insufficiency, either at a clinical or molecular level, often has implications for the management of the patient. Recent molecular-genetic ...