Effect of a 14-day course of systemic corticosteroids on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-axis in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BACKGROUND: As supra-physiological intake of corticosteroids is a well known risk factor for the development of adrenal insufficiency, we investigated the function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis during a 14-day course of systemic corticosteroids in patients with acute exacerbation...

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Autores principales: Schuetz, Philipp, Christ-Crain, Mirjam, Schild, Ursula, Süess, Erika, Facompre, Michael, Baty, Florent, Nusbaumer, Charly, Brutsche, Martin, Müller, Beat
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2246097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18221550
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-8-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2246097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18221550
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-8-1

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