Recovery of adrenocortical function following treatment of tuberculous Addison's disease Sir, Penrice and Nussey report two cases of Addison's disease in which adrenocortical function recovered following treatment of tuberculosis.' Adrenal glands may be enlarged or atrophic in patients with Addison's disease due to t iberculosis. Large glands in tuberculosis mean a recent and probably active in...

BACKGROUND The authors performed a systematic search of the literature to identify the frequency of, risk of experiencing and factors associated with adrenal crises in dental patients. METHODS The authors searched PubMed and Ovid MEDLINE (1947-June 20, 2012) and Embase (1974-2012) for English-language articles related to cases of adrenal crisis in dentistry and extracted and analyzed data fro...

UNLABELLED Adrenal disorders are relative frequent with regard to the incidence of adrenal tumors and the high portion in causes of secondary hypertension. Morphological changes in the adrenal glands can lead to very different functional disorders that may be clinically overt or hard to diagnose. On the other hand, they can already be functionally relevant when structural changes are too small ...

We assessed the usefulness and reliability of computed tomography (CT scan) in evaluating adrenal hyperplasia in 38 patients, including 14 with Cushing's disease, 17 with idiopathic hyperaldosteronism (IHA), and 7 with the adrenogenital syndrome (AGS). Eighty-two normal subjects were also examined. We analyzed the shape of the adrenal gland and quantitated its thickness, width and length. Visua...

BACKGROUND Adrenal abnormalities are often identified on imaging studies performed during the staging of patients presenting with a new malignancy or restaging of patients with a history of a malignancy. METHODS We reviewed the records of patients who underwent surgical resection of an adrenal mass identified in the setting of previously or newly diagnosed extra-adrenal malignancy. RESULTS ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the treatment outcome of arterial embolization in adrenal tumor MATERIAL AND METHOD Clinical records of patients with adrenal tumor who underwent adrenal arterial embolization with pre- and post-embolization computed tomography (CT) imaging at Siriraj Hospital, between 2007 and 2013 were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS Five sessions of embolization were performed in ...

OBJECTIVE In primary aldosteronism, adrenal venous sampling (AVS) is essential for subtype differentiation as it evaluates aldosterone secretion from both adrenals. Selectivity of adrenal sampling is assessed by the ratio of cortisol concentrations in adrenal venous blood and inferior vena cava blood (C(adrenal)/C(ivc)). Since the criteria for selective adrenal sampling differ among the reporte...

OBJECTIVE To review the criteria for diagnosing and treating adrenal insufficiency in patients with septic shock. SOURCE OF DATA Articles published in Brazilian and foreign journals selected through these publicationś websites and Medline, as well as references cited in key articles. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS The literature reports a range betwen 17 and 54% for the finding of adrenal insuffic...

AIMS Fatty tumours of the adrenal gland are uncommon and their features have received little attention in the literature. The aim of this study is to analyse the features of adrenal lipomatous tumours. METHODS The histological features of primary adrenal tumours reported over a 30 year period (1970 to 1999) in Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong were reviewed and the clinicopathological features o...

INTRODUCTION Oncocytic neoplasms as tumors arising in the adrenal glands are rare, usually considered as nonfunctional and benign. In the current literature, there are extremely limited reports of adrenal oncocytic neoplasms; as to date, only 147 cases have been described. The rarity of the event prompted this study which reviews and presents the incidence, histology, diagnosis and therapy of a...