Adrenal Insufficiency
Key Facts
Abbreviation
AI
Pronunciation
/əˌdriːnəl ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃənsi/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine
Examples in Context
- Future studies will have to explore the potential of dehydroepiandrosterone replacement and modified delayed-release hydrocortisone to improve the prospects of patients with adrenal insufficiency.
- Primary adrenal insufficiency is most frequently caused by autoimmune adrenalitis, and hypothalamic-pituitary tumors represent the most frequent cause of secondary adrenal insufficiency.
- Objective To study changes of plasma cortisol level after pediatric cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass ( CPB ) and explore risk factors for adrenal insufficiency ( AI ) after surgery.
- A steroid hormone, C21H30O3, secreted by the adrenal cortex or produced synthetically and used to treat adrenal insufficiency.
- High Prevalence of " Biochemical " Adrenal Insufficiency(AI) in Thalassemics : is it a Matter of Different Testings or Decreased Cortisol Binding Globulin?
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