Isolated ACTH deficiency is a rare disorder often presenting with long-standing aspecific symptoms combined with unusual clinical presentations. We here describe a patient in whom pericardial effusion was part of the clinical presentation and fully resolved on steroid at replacement dosage, highlighting the possibility of hypoadrenalism as an additional cause of pericardial effusion of unknown origin.
Isolated corticotrophin deficiency presenting with pericardial effusion / L.M. Fatti, F. Pecori Giraldi, F. Cavagnini. - In: JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION. - ISSN 0391-4097. - 28:9(2005), pp. 831-833.
Isolated corticotrophin deficiency presenting with pericardial effusion
F. Pecori GiraldiSecondo
;F. CavagniniUltimo
2005
Abstract
Isolated ACTH deficiency is a rare disorder often presenting with long-standing aspecific symptoms combined with unusual clinical presentations. We here describe a patient in whom pericardial effusion was part of the clinical presentation and fully resolved on steroid at replacement dosage, highlighting the possibility of hypoadrenalism as an additional cause of pericardial effusion of unknown origin.File in questo prodotto:
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