La Revue du praticien
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La Revue du praticien · Apr 1998
Review Comparative Study[Red and/or painful eye diagnostic trends].
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Adrenal insufficiency can be either primitive as the result of a destruction of the glands or secondary to a corticotropic failure. Adrenal insufficiency can appear as an acute event or in contrast arise progressively. An acute adrenal insufficiency can occur any time and threatens the vital prognosis. ⋯ The treatment of adrenal insufficiency includes substitutive doses of mineralo and/or glucocorticoids and, as often as possible, etiologic therapy. For this reason, as soon as the diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency has been done, a main point is to determine the cause of the endocrine failure. Indeed, some diseases responsible for adrenal deficiency, among a progressively extending list of etiologic factors, can benefit for a specific treatment.