A Case Report of Steroid Withdrawal Syndrome

We report a case of steroid withdrawal syndrome in a 74-year-old woman who was suspected of having an occult exogenous Cushing’s syndrome secondary to prolonged traditional complementary medicine use. She presented with non-specific symptoms of lethargy, malaise, and poor oral intake with weight los...

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Autores principales: Wahab, Faziana, Rahman, Razlina Abdul, Yaacob, Lili Husniati, Noor, Norhayati Mohd, Draman, Nani
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Korean Academy of Family Medicine 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7509117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32961047
http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.18.0181
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author Wahab, Faziana
Rahman, Razlina Abdul
Yaacob, Lili Husniati
Noor, Norhayati Mohd
Draman, Nani
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description We report a case of steroid withdrawal syndrome in a 74-year-old woman who was suspected of having an occult exogenous Cushing’s syndrome secondary to prolonged traditional complementary medicine use. She presented with non-specific symptoms of lethargy, malaise, and poor oral intake with weight loss for 1 month, and investigations showed suboptimal 9 AM cortisol level. She has responded well to steroid replacement.
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spelling pubmed-75091172020-10-01 A Case Report of Steroid Withdrawal Syndrome Wahab, Faziana Rahman, Razlina Abdul Yaacob, Lili Husniati Noor, Norhayati Mohd Draman, Nani Korean J Fam Med Case Report We report a case of steroid withdrawal syndrome in a 74-year-old woman who was suspected of having an occult exogenous Cushing’s syndrome secondary to prolonged traditional complementary medicine use. She presented with non-specific symptoms of lethargy, malaise, and poor oral intake with weight loss for 1 month, and investigations showed suboptimal 9 AM cortisol level. She has responded well to steroid replacement. Korean Academy of Family Medicine 2020-09 2020-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7509117/ /pubmed/32961047 http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.18.0181 Text en Copyright © 2020 The Korean Academy of Family Medicine This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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