Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone suppression test performed shortly after surgical adenomectomy may ...

The classical description of Addison's disease in a 15-year-old girl1 is a timely reminder of this well-known but uncommon disorder. In their description of the investigative work-up and discussion, ...

TORONTO — Biomedical and clinical variables are not helpful to predict recovery of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in patients who received supraphysiological doses of glucocorticoids and who ...

To investigate if in preterm newborns, an early adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH) test can identify possible transient adrenal insufficiency (TAI), using significant hypotension as a clinical marker.

Veterinarians can typically diagnose a horse with late-stage pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID, or equine Cushing's disease) easily. Diagnosing early stage PPID and, thus, allowing treatment ...

THE response of the adrenal cortex to intensive stimulation with exogenous ACTH provides an excellent guide to the functional status of the adrenal cortex under most circumstances. Tests based on this ...

To measure the adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and cortisol (F) cord plasma levels in preterm and term infants in relation to their mode of delivery. We studied 180 newborns appropriate for ...

Immunodiagnostic Systems Holdings plc (IDS), a specialty solution provider to the clinical laboratory diagnostic market, today launched the IDS-iSYS ACTH assay in the European market - a fully ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am inquiring about low cortisol. My son recently was told that his cortisol level is 0.39 and that it should be above 1.8. The result was from a saliva test. He has a very high pulse ...

We agree with the interpretation of the short ACTH stimulation test described by Deeba Syeda and associates. In the case that we described,1 a long ACTH stimulation test was unnecessary because of the ...