Bilateral adrenal infarction in Crohn's disease

Adrenal infarction is an uncommon cause of adrenal insufficiency. We herein present unique occurrence of bilateral adrenal infarction detected on imaging in a young female with known history of Crohn's disease. The patient responded well to steroids and is on follow up. To our knowledge, this i...

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Autores principales: Khandelwal, Ashish, Krishna, J. Sateesh, Khandelwal, Kanika, Virmani, Vivek, Ryan, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3784888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24083186
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.117227
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author Khandelwal, Ashish
Krishna, J. Sateesh
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description Adrenal infarction is an uncommon cause of adrenal insufficiency. We herein present unique occurrence of bilateral adrenal infarction detected on imaging in a young female with known history of Crohn's disease. The patient responded well to steroids and is on follow up. To our knowledge, this is the first case reported in English literature of adrenal infarct associated with Crohn's disease as extraintestinal manifestation.
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spelling pubmed-37848882013-09-30 Bilateral adrenal infarction in Crohn's disease Khandelwal, Ashish Krishna, J. Sateesh Khandelwal, Kanika Virmani, Vivek Ryan, John Indian J Endocrinol Metab Case Report Adrenal infarction is an uncommon cause of adrenal insufficiency. We herein present unique occurrence of bilateral adrenal infarction detected on imaging in a young female with known history of Crohn's disease. The patient responded well to steroids and is on follow up. To our knowledge, this is the first case reported in English literature of adrenal infarct associated with Crohn's disease as extraintestinal manifestation. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3784888/ /pubmed/24083186 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.117227 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Bilateral adrenal infarction in Crohn's disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3784888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24083186
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