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 ...

Thus, with the administration of this steroid it is possible to carry out the intravenous ACTH test and to follow accurately the urinary steroid response in patients with suspected adrenal ...

The complexity of this problem is due largely to the capacity of adrenal hormones to influence virtually every organ system, defense mechanism and biochemical pathway that might participate in the ...

The case reported below is, to our knowledge, the first case of overwhelming sepsis with adrenal hemorrhage proved at autopsy that has been studied with repeated eosinophil counts done by the ...

For a time it seemed that licorice might be effective only in the presence of an intact adrenal gland, but Borst and others demonstrated that licorice had no action like ACTH; it produced no ...