ALLMedicine™ Addison's Disease Center

Jan 19th, 2023 - Autoimmune Addison's disease (AAD) arises from a complex interplay between multiple genetic susceptibility polymorphisms and environmental factors. The first genome wide association study (GWAS) with patients from Scandinavian Addison's registries...

Jan 8th, 2023 - The number of recognised distinct autoimmune diseases (AIDs) has progressively increased over the years with more than 100 being reported today. The natural history of AIDs is characterized by progression from latent and subclinical to clinical st...

Jan 4th, 2023 - A man in his 20s with a history of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) was brought into the emergency department (ED) after his family found him at home collapsed on the floor unresponsive with a blood glucose of 28 mg/dL at the field. In ...

Nov 4th, 2022 - Autoimmune destruction of the adrenal cortex is the main cause of primary adrenal insufficiency (Addison's disease, AD). Autoimmune AD (AAD) becomes clinically manifest when 90 % of cortex of adrenal gland is destroyed. Current dogma says that adr...

Oct 25th, 2022 - Addison's disease is primary adrenal dysfunction and is characterized by decrease of cortisol level and increase of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) level. It is known that infection is one of main causes of Addison's disease. Among various infe...

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...

Nov 4th, 2022 - Autoimmune destruction of the adrenal cortex is the main cause of primary adrenal insufficiency (Addison's disease, AD). Autoimmune AD (AAD) becomes clinically manifest when 90 % of cortex of adrenal gland is destroyed. Current dogma says that adr...

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 ...

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 ...