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 …

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 …

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 …

Introduction. Acute adrenal crisis in relation to nasal steroid overuse has been reported very
scantly in English medical literature and remains an underdiagnosed condition. Case …

BACKGROUND: Inhaled glucocorticoids are the medical treatment of choice in many of
patients with asthma. Fluticasone propionate is an inhaled glucocorticoid with little systemic …

Four cases of asthma (one adult, three children) developing acute adrenal crisis after
introduction of high-dose inhaled fluticasone proprionate are presented. The three children …

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: Although widely used, the effects of steroid “bursts” on the hypothalamic-
pituitary-adrenal axis, especially with long-term, concomitant topical steroids use, have not …

Adrenal suppression secondary to prolonged inhaled corticosteroid use is usually limited to
biochemical abnormalities, with no obvious clinical effects. Acute adrenal crisis is much rarer …

Objective: To report a case of adrenal insufficiency caused by chronic corticosteroid
treatment. Summary: This case study describes a 71-year-old Caucasian woman diagnosed …