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Acute adrenal insufficiency mimicking septic shock: a case report
M J Melby1, K Bergman, T Ramos
1Department of Pharmacy, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111.
Pharmacotherapy
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Acute adrenal insufficiency is an unusual problem that may mimic overwhelming sepsis. Elevated cardiac output and low systemic vascular resistance in a patient with known risk factors should alert clinicians to the possibility of that condition.