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A Challenging diagnosis that eventually results in a life-threatening condition: Addison’s disease and adrenal crisis
A young man endures many years with classic symptoms of Addison’s disease due to difficulties in distinguishing this rare condition, whose features are non-specific and insidious in nature. With all facts on hand, the patient’s notable history of psychiatric disorders, namely depression, anxiety and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6936478/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31888894 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2019-231858 |
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description | A young man endures many years with classic symptoms of Addison’s disease due to difficulties in distinguishing this rare condition, whose features are non-specific and insidious in nature. With all facts on hand, the patient’s notable history of psychiatric disorders, namely depression, anxiety and social isolation, as well as signs of extreme fatigue and syncope may well have been caused by a gradual onset of primary adrenal insufficiency. Long delays in diagnosis are not uncommon, as in this case where the actual condition was identified just in time when the patient presented with a life-threatening cardiovascular collapse. |
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spelling | pubmed-69364782020-01-06 A Challenging diagnosis that eventually results in a life-threatening condition: Addison’s disease and adrenal crisis Joersjö, Philippa Block, Linda BMJ Case Rep Rare Disease A young man endures many years with classic symptoms of Addison’s disease due to difficulties in distinguishing this rare condition, whose features are non-specific and insidious in nature. With all facts on hand, the patient’s notable history of psychiatric disorders, namely depression, anxiety and social isolation, as well as signs of extreme fatigue and syncope may well have been caused by a gradual onset of primary adrenal insufficiency. Long delays in diagnosis are not uncommon, as in this case where the actual condition was identified just in time when the patient presented with a life-threatening cardiovascular collapse. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6936478/ /pubmed/31888894 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2019-231858 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Rare Disease Joersjö, Philippa Block, Linda A Challenging diagnosis that eventually results in a life-threatening condition: Addison’s disease and adrenal crisis |
title | A Challenging diagnosis that eventually results in a life-threatening condition: Addison’s disease and adrenal crisis |
title_full | A Challenging diagnosis that eventually results in a life-threatening condition: Addison’s disease and adrenal crisis |
title_fullStr | A Challenging diagnosis that eventually results in a life-threatening condition: Addison’s disease and adrenal crisis |
title_full_unstemmed | A Challenging diagnosis that eventually results in a life-threatening condition: Addison’s disease and adrenal crisis |
title_short | A Challenging diagnosis that eventually results in a life-threatening condition: Addison’s disease and adrenal crisis |
title_sort | challenging diagnosis that eventually results in a life-threatening condition: addison’s disease and adrenal crisis |
topic | Rare Disease |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6936478/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31888894 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2019-231858 |
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