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A retrospective analysis of adrenal crisis in steroid-dependent patients: causes, frequency and outcomes

BMC Endocrine Disorders, 2019
Background Adrenal patients have a lifelong dependency on steroid replacement therapy and are vulnerable to sudden death from undertreated adrenal crisis.
Katherine G. White
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Rare Bilateral Adrenal Haemorrhage with Addisonian Crisis: When Risk Factors Come in Droves

Case Reports in Endocrinology, 2020
Addisonian crisis is the life-threatening acute manifestation of adrenal insufficiency due to absolute or relative glucocorticoid deficiency. Adrenal haemorrhage is a rare condition of unknown incidence with the risk of adrenal insufficiency and death ...
Anders Boisen Jensen, Elise Durand, Vojtech Pavlicek   +2 more
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Pheochromocytoma – clinical manifestations, diagnosis and current perioperative management [PDF]

, 2019
Pheochromocytoma is a neuroendocrine tumor characterized by the excessive production of catecholamines (epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine). The diagnosis is suspected due to hypertensive paroxysms, associated with vegetative phenomena, due to the
Bratu, Ovidiu G, Diaconu, Camelia C, Gaman, Mihnea A, Manea, Maria, Marcu, Dragos R, Pantea Stoian, Anca, Stanescu, Ana M   +6 more
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Environmental Exposures during Puberty: Window of Breast Cancer Risk and Epigenetic Damage. [PDF]

, 2020
During puberty, a woman's breasts are vulnerable to environmental damage ("window of vulnerability"). Early exposure to environmental carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, and unhealthy foods (refined sugar, processed fats, food additives) are hypothesized ...
Aljaber, Dana, Au, Dawn, Benmarhnia, Tarik, Cardiff, Robert D, Chavez, Tanya, Dietze, Eric C, Doan, Stacey, Jankowska, Marta M, Jones, Veronica, McCune, Jeannine S, Natarajan, Rama, Nunez, Alan, Resto, Cristal, Sanchez, Angelica, Seewaldt, Victoria L, Serrano, Mayra, Sistrunk, Christopher, Thai, Christine, Tomsic, Jerneja, Yang, Jiue-An   +19 more
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A model for measuring the health burden of classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia in adults [PDF]

, 2016
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.Aim: Patients with classic Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) have poor health outcomes.
Ara, RM, Dixon, S, Hummel, SR, Ross, RJ, Sadler, S, Whitaker, MJ   +5 more
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Acute adrenal crisis after orthopedic surgery for pathologic fracture

World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2007
Background Adrenal crisis after surgical procedure is a rare but potentially catastrophic life-threatening event. Its manifestations, such as hypotension, tachycardia, hypoxia, and fever mimic the other more common postoperative complications.
Hashimoto Nobuyuki, Sonoda Shunji, Chun Bang-mi, Moriguchi Yu, Nanno Katsuhiko, Takenaka Satoshi, Naka Norifumi, Tsukamoto Yoshitane, Araki Nobuhito   +8 more
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Bilateral synchronous robotic-assisted adrenalectomies in a patient of bilateral pheochromocytoma and Von Hippel–Lindau Disease – A rewarding approach

Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, 2023
Hypertensive crisis is rare in children. Among the rarest causes leading to this acute crisis, is bilateral adrenal tumour as a part of a syndrome, Von Hippel Lindau syndrome.
Ashitosh D Pokharkar, Deepak K Kandpal, M Aditya, Chandar M Batra, Sujit K Chowdhary   +4 more
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Managing toxicities associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: consensus recommendations from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Toxicity Management Working Group. [PDF]

, 2017
Cancer immunotherapy has transformed the treatment of cancer. However, increasing use of immune-based therapies, including the widely used class of agents known as immune checkpoint inhibitors, has exposed a discrete group of immune-related adverse ...
Abdallah, K., Anderson, J., Andrews, S., Arrindell, D., Ballesteros, J., Bingham, C. O., Boyer, J., Brogdon, C., Chen, D., Chonzi, D., Cotarla, I., Cunha, R., Dadu, R., Davies, M., Dawson, M., Diab, A., Dicker, Adam, Eifler, L., Ernstoff, M. S., Ferguson, A., Ferlini, C., Frankel, S., Go, W., Gochett, C., Goldberg, J., Goncalves, P., Goswami, T., Gregory, N., Gulley, J. L., Hamad, L., Hayreh, V., Helie, N., Holmes, W., Hsu, J. Y., Ibrahim, R., Kaufman, H. L., Kim, S., Lacouture, M. E., Lambotte, O., Larocca, C., LeBoeuf, N. R., Lehman, K., Lenihan, D., Ley-Acosta, S., Luke, J., McClure, J., Michelon, E., Nakamura, M., Onofrei, C., Patel, K., Piperdi, B., Puzanov, I., Rasheed, Z., Reshef, D., Riemer, J., Robert, C., Sarkeshik, M., Saylors, A., Schreiber, J., Shafer-Weaver, K., Shannon, V., Sharfman, W., Sharma, R., Sharon, E., Sherry, R., Silk, A. W., Simonson, C., Skondra, D., Suarez-Almazor, M. E., Thomas, C., Thompson, J. A., Trehu, E., Tresnan, D., Turner, M., Wang, Y., Wariabharaj, D., Waxman, I., Wiley, K., Wood, L., Zhang, L., Zheng, P.   +80 more
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Latent Adrenal Insufficiency: From Concept to Diagnosis

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021
Primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI) is a rare disease and potentially fatal if unrecognized. It is characterized by destruction of the adrenal cortex, most frequently of autoimmune origin, resulting in glucocorticoid, mineralocorticoid, and adrenal ...
Nada Younes, Isabelle Bourdeau, Andre Lacroix   +2 more
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Hijacking emergency granulopoiesis: Neutrophil ontogeny and reprogramming in cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Neutrophils are highly plastic innate immune cells; their functions in cancer extend beyond the tumour microenvironment. This Review summarises current understanding of neutrophil maturation and heterogeneity and highlights tumour‐induced granulopoiesis as a systemic programme that expands immature, immunosuppressive neutrophils via tumour‐derived ...
Gabriela Marinescu, Yi Feng
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