Unilateral Adrenal Hemorrhage during ACTH Therapy
- 8 May 1958
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 258 (19) , 945-946
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195805082581906
Abstract
OF the complications encountered in the use of ACTH and corticosteroid therapy, abdominal catastrophes rank high. The problem of peptic ulcer and visceral perforation is well known. However, the occurrence of adrenal hemorrhage after ACTH therapy is exceedingly rare. Two cases of bilateral hemorrhage have been reported, 1 occurring in a patient with ulcerative colitis1 and the other in a patient with moderately severe hypertension.2 In the following case unilateral adrenal hemorrhage occurred during ACTH therapy for retrobulbar neuritis.Case ReportMrs. H.B., a 39-year-old woman, entered the New York Hospital in January, 1957, because of retrobulbar neuritis on the . . .Keywords
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