ALLMedicine™ Addison's Disease Center

Aug 31st, 2022 - Some autoimmune diseases are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. We aimed to determine whether or not this is true, and to what extent, for a broad range of autoimmune conditions. In this population-based study, we used li...

Aug 25th, 2022 - Patients with primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI) have impaired subjective health status (1, 2) and excess mortality (3, 4). Cardiovascular disease is the greatest contributor towards the excess mortality (3). How current glucocorticoid replacemen...

Aug 11th, 2022 - The adrenal is a small, anatomically unimposing structure that escaped scientific notice until 1564, and whose existence was doubted by many until the 18 th century. Adrenal functions were inferred from the adrenal insufficiency syndrome described...

Aug 11th, 2022 - Recurrent episodes of vomiting and diarrhoea in a child can present as a diagnostic dilemma and be easily misdiagnosed as recurrent viral gastroenteritis episodes. Primary adrenal insufficiency can present with recurrent episodes of vomiting and d...

Aug 2nd, 2022 - Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is an immune-mediated disease characterized by reduced insulin secretion by islet Beta cells in the pancreas that leads to insulin deficiency . Because of a common genetic background and interaction between environm...

Dec 18th, 2013 - Primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI), or Addison's disease, is a rare, potentially deadly, but treatable disease. Most cases of PAI are caused by autoimmune destruction of the adrenal cortex. Consequently, patients with PAI are at higher risk of de...

Aug 25th, 2022 - Patients with primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI) have impaired subjective health status (1, 2) and excess mortality (3, 4). Cardiovascular disease is the greatest contributor towards the excess mortality (3). How current glucocorticoid replacemen...

Aug 2nd, 2022 - Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is an immune-mediated disease characterized by reduced insulin secretion by islet Beta cells in the pancreas that leads to insulin deficiency . Because of a common genetic background and interaction between environm...

Jul 12th, 2022 - Dental patients will be recruited in a consecutive manner from the diagnostic center, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University. Medical history will be taken and patients with certain diseases as Addison's disease, Albright's syndrome, Hereditary he...

Apr 19th, 2022 - Endolymphatic hydrops is acommon inner ear dysfunction. This term often used with meniere's disease and meniere's syndrome. However meniere's is idiopathic by definition where as it can occur secondary to various processes interfering with normal ...

Nov 30th, 2021 - Purpose and design This study will be the first of its kind to address the difference in inflammatory reaction between these two sutures in entropion repair surgery. Both sutures are widely used in the NHS in eyelid surgery already. The study desi...

Dec 20th, 2020 - Paul G. Walfish, CM, OOnt Treatment with programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) immunotherapy across various oncology clinical trials has been associated with the induction of painless thyroiditis, characterized by transient thyrotoxicosis and hypothyroi...

May 26th, 2020 - Hyperkalemia—serum potassium greater than approximately 5.0-5.5 mEq/L in adults—is associated with kidney disease, a diet high in potassium, and drugs that impair renal potassium excretion. It can also appear in infants or children with certain ge...

May 26th, 2020 - Hyperkalemia—serum potassium greater than approximately 5.0-5.5 mEq/L in adults—is associated with kidney disease, a diet high in potassium, and drugs that impair renal potassium excretion. It can also appear in infants or children with certain ge...

Nov 4th, 2019 - Notwithstanding the usual suspects that hinder electronic health record (EHR) implementation—initial costs, interoperability problems, training burdens, and altered physician-patient dynamics—there's also the risk of a pure system malfunction. In ...

Nov 4th, 2019 - Notwithstanding the usual suspects that hinder electronic health record (EHR) implementation—initial costs, interoperability problems, training burdens, and altered physician-patient dynamics—there's also the risk of a pure system malfunction. In ...