ea0086s6.1 | Novel therapeutics and diagnostics in adrenal disease | SFEBES2022
Steenblock Charlotte
, Oikonomakos Ioannis
, Malyukov Maria
, Bornstein Stefan
Primary adrenal insufficiency is due to impairment of the adrenal gland with ~80% of the cases being due to autoimmune adrenalitis (Addisons disease). Other cases of primary adrenal insufficiency might be idiopathic, caused by adrenal metastases, or due to congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Adrenal insufficiency might also be induced by infectious diseases e.g. COVID-19 and, as seen lately in an increasing number of patients, by novel medications targeting hypertension and ...