"Addison Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An adrenal disease characterized by the progressive destruction of the ADRENAL CORTEX, resulting in insufficient production of ALDOSTERONE and HYDROCORTISONE. Clinical symptoms include ANOREXIA; NAUSEA; WEIGHT LOSS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; and HYPERPIGMENTATION of the SKIN due to increase in circulating levels of ACTH precursor hormone which stimulates MELANOCYTES.
| Descriptor ID |
D000224
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C19.053.500.263 C20.111.163
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| Concept/Terms |
Addison Disease- Addison Disease
- Disease, Addison
- Primary Adrenal Insufficiency
- Adrenal Insufficiency, Primary
- Primary Hypoadrenalism
- Hypoadrenalism, Primary
- Hypoadrenalisms, Primary
- Addison's Disease
- Addisons Disease
- Primary Adrenocortical Insufficiency
- Adrenocortical Insufficiencies, Primary
- Adrenocortical Insufficiency, Primary
- Insufficiencies, Primary Adrenocortical
- Insufficiency, Primary Adrenocortical
- Primary Adrenocortical Insufficiencies
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2019 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Addison Disease" by people in Profiles.
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Primary adrenal insufficiency associated with Oxford-AstraZeneca ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT). Eur J Intern Med. 2021 09; 91:90-92.
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Hypothesis: does adrenalitis caused by immune checkpoint-inhibitors put melanoma patients at an elevated risk for recurrence? J Immunother Cancer. 2019 07 04; 7(1):166.
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Sex-Specific Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Autoimmune Addison Disease-A Population-Based Cohort Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2019 06 01; 104(6):2031-2040.
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Jaundice and anaemia as presenting features of an incomplete autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type II. BMJ Case Rep. 2019 Apr 08; 12(4).
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SIADH versus adrenal insufficiency: a life-threatening misdiagnosis. Ital J Pediatr. 2019 Feb 06; 45(1):23.
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An Update on Addison's Disease. Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes. 2019 Feb; 127(2-03):165-175.
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Circadian Rhythm of Glucocorticoid Administration Entrains Clock Genes in Immune Cells: A DREAM Trial Ancillary Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2018 08 01; 103(8):2998-3009.
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[Salivary cortisol testing: preanalytic and analytic aspects]. Ann Biol Clin (Paris). 2018 08 01; 76(4):393-405.
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Evidence of increased humoral endocrine organ-specific autoimmunity in severe and classic X-chromosome aneuploidies in comparison with 46,XY control subjects. Autoimmunity. 2018 06; 51(4):175-182.
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Hypotensive presentation of cardiac tamponade can simulate Addisonian crisis. Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2018 Jun 02; 79(6):355.