Essential Facts on the Go: Internal Medicine (27 page)

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Authors: Lauren Stern,Vijay Lapsia

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Injectable Diabetes Medications

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Adrenal Insufficiency in Adults
Causes
Primary
Autoimmune adrenalitis (Addison’s disease)
Infections: TB, HIV, CMV,
Cryptococcus
, histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis
Infiltrative diseases: metastases, lymphoma, sarcoidosis, amyloidosis, hemochromatosis
Hemorrhage: Waterhouse-Friedrichsen syndrome (meningococcus)
Drugs: ketoconazole, etomidate
Surgical: bilateral adrenalectomy
Secondary
Pituitary tumors
Pituitary irradiation

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