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Critical illness as a model of hypothalamic ageing
Greet Van den Berghe1, Stephen M Shalet
1Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital, Gasthuisberg, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
Novartis Foundation Symposium
|February 22, 2002
Abstract:
In this review we shall consider the endocrine changes seen in the various hypothalamic pituitary-target gland axes at different stages of critical illness and conclude by comparing these changes with those seen in the normal ageing process.