Primary adrenal insufficiency

• Akbasheva Diana A.

AbstractPrimary adrenal insufficiency (syn.: Addison's disease, hypocorticism, primary hypoadrenalism) is one of the most severe polysymptomatic endocrine disorders in which the destruction of the cortex results in deficiency of corticosteroids' production.

Keywords:primary adrenal insufficiency, Addison's disease, autoimmune adrenalitis, adrenal tuberculosis, corticosteroids, mineralocorticoids, autoimmune polyglandular syndrome

All articles in our journal are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0 license)