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Cardiac tamponade preceding adrenal insufficiency ‐ an unusual presentation of Addisons's disease: a report of two cases.
Author(s) -
TORFOSS D.,
LIPPE E. VON DER,
JACOBSEN D.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.625
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1365-2796
pISSN - 0954-6820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2796.1997.tb00012.x
Subject(s) - medicine , adrenal insufficiency , subclinical infection , pericarditis , cardiac tamponade , presentation (obstetrics) , constrictive pericarditis , thyroid disease , disease , addison's disease , surgery , cardiology , thyroid
. Torfoss D, von der Lippe E, Jacobsen D (Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, Norway). Cardiac tamponade preceding adrenal insdciency ‐ an unusual presentation of Addison's disease: a report of two cases (Case report). Two cases of young healthy males presenting with cardiac tamponade and developing clinical adrenal insufficiency within a few weeks are described. On presentation they had a brisk inflammatory response with complement activation. Both had signs of subclinical hepatitis, and both have later shown evidence of thyroid involvement. The possibility of a connection between pericarditis and adrenal insdciency is discussed.