Adrenal failure complicating status asthmaticus in steroid-treated patients.
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Adrenal failure complicating status asthmaticus in steroid-treated patients.
Though pathological studies have shown that administration of adrenal steroids can cause adrenocortical atrophy in experimental animals (Ingle, 1938 ; Winter et al., 1950 ; Rawls et al., 1954; Holub et al., 1959) and in man (Sprague et al., 1950, 1951 ; Salassa et al., 1953 ; Bennett, 1954 Stoner and Whiteley, 1954), biochemical studies have revealed that the adrenal glands are capable of respo...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1966
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.5528.1478