Endocrine Abstracts

This is the case of a now 37 years old female. She was diagnosed with classical salt wasting congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency at 1 week after birth. She highlights the challenges of living with CAH. She struggled all through her childhood and adolescence with the burden of treatment, difficulties with compliance and the effects of the inadequate control of hyperandrogenism. In adulthood supraphysiological doses of exogenous steroids lead to...

Background: The Covid-19 pandemic has led to various unprecedented challenges and obstacles, especially in the field of Diabetes and Metabolism, many of which are as novel as the pandemic itself. Discovering efficacious therapeutic options resulting in positive outcomes has been a challenge. Dexamethasone has been shown to reduce mortality in patients with Covid-19 pneumonitis who require oxygen therapy and/or ventilation. Exogenous steroid therapy is renowned to cause adverse...