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Adrenal failure in fulminant meningococcal septicaemia: a clinical reality
P H McWhinney1, A Patel, E Walker
1Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Current teaching is that adrenal failure is not a feature of meningococcal sepsis, and that cortisol levels are generally elevated. A case of fulminant meningococcal septicaemia in a 14-year-old boy is described. This patient had low/borderline cortisol levels, which normalised within some days.