A 62-year-old Asian British female presented with increasing tiredness. She had multiple co-
morbidities and was prescribed steroid inhalers for asthma. She had also received short …

A 55-year-old woman with asthma presented with adrenal insufficiency of unknown origin.
She was referred to our Division of Reproductive Endocrinology to further evaluate an …

Adrenal Suppression with Cushingoid Features from Inhaled Corticosteroid Therapy in an Adult
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A 42-year-old man with complaints of muscle soreness and an increased pigmentation of
the skin was referred because of a suspicion of adrenal insufficiency. His …

BACKGROUND: Whereas oral corticosteroids and high-dose inhaled corticosteroids may be
associated with suppression of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, medium-dose …

Symptomatic adrenal insufficiency secondary to the use of inhaled corticosteroids is a rare
condition. We present a case in which a 16 year-old male patient with asthma treated with …

Background: Adrenal insufficiency, a well recognised complication of treatment with oral
corticosteroids, has been described in association with inhaled corticosteroid use in over 60 …

Background We previously reported that as many as one third of hospitalized patients with
asthma treated with a low to medium daily dose of inhaled steroids (ICSs) for an average of …

Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) have been used as first line treatment of asthma for many
decades. ICS are a form of exogenous glucocorticosteroids that can suppress the …

As Thomas Addison observed in his famous monograph written in 1855, the adrenal glands
are ''objects of deep interest''and so they remain [ 1]. In the monograph he described several …