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Relative adrenal insufficiency as a predictor of disease severity and mortality in severe septic shock

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate if cortisol responses to 250 µg of intravenously administered adrenocorticotropic hormone are related to disease severity and, hence, mortality. METHODS: This is a retrospective study in a medical-surgical intensive care unit of a university hospital. We studied 69 consecutive...

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Autores principales: Dalegrave, Daniele, Silva, Rafael Lockshin, Becker, Maicon, Gehrke, Lísia Varella, Friedman, Gilberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Associação Brasileira de Medicina intensiva 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4031805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23917934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-507X2012000400012

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