Background: The term “adrenal fatigue” (“AF”) has been used by some doctors, healthcare providers, and the general media to describe an alleged condition caused by chronic exposure to stressful situations. Despite this, ...

Thomas Addison first described, 150 years ago, a clinical syndrome characterized by salt-wasting and skin hyperpigmentation, associated with a destruction of the adrenal gland. Even today, over a century after Addison's ...

Adrenal insufficiency is common in pediatric patients with septic shock, but remains underdiagnosed in the early stages of sepsis. The early recognition of the factors representing risk for septic shock is crucial, since ...

a criptococosis es una infección micótica sistémica causada por la levadura encapsulada del género Cryptococcus. Se adquiere por inhalación de partículas infecciosas (basidiosporas) que ocasionan una infección primaria ...