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ea0059oc4.5 | Clinical highlights | SFEBES2018

Hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis recovery rate of patients with glucocorticoid-induced adrenal insufficiency (GC-induced AI)

Feliciano Chona , Gleeson Helena , Tomlinson Jeremy , Nightingale Peter , Willets Matthew

Aim: To evaluate the recovery rate, characteristics and factors that might help predict the HPA axis recovery of patients with glomerulonephritis (GN) and GC-induced AI.Study Design: A retrospective study involving all GN patients referred from January 2014-December 2016 with a confirmed diagnosis of GC-induced AI with a planned weaning from conventional Prednisolone (Pred) immunosuppression and switch onto Hydrocortisone (HC). Data collected up to Novem...