[A case of Addison's disease caused by adrenal tuberculosis, and revealed acute hypoadrenocorticism]

We reported a case of Addison's disease, caused by adrenal tuberculosis. The patient was female, seventy four years old. She complained cough and body weight loss. She complained cough from June, 1989, but her home doctor didn't take care of her symptoms. September 1989, she felt appetite loss, and easy fatigue, so her home doctor suspected her disease as pulmonary tuberculosis, so he introduced our hospital, and she admitted. When she admitted, her chest roentogenogram revealed bIII2. Sputum smear examinations were negative. Laboratory data on admission, we observed slightly eosinophilia, severe iron deficiency anemia, and accenturation of blood sedimentation rate. Immediately after admission, she complained nausea, vomiting, coldness, and powerless. On 25 days after admission, she lost her senses suddenly, and her blood pressure fell 5 days after, she fell in shock state, too. We found out her blood sugar data was 29. After blood examinations, we found out that ACTH was high, cortisole, 17-KS, 17-OHCS were low. So we thought she got acute hypoadrenocorticism. We found her abdominal CT revealed calcification in her right adrenal gland. We diagnosed her disease as Addison's disease caused by adrenal tuberculosis so we began to give prednisolone, 7.5 mg per day. After giving, her state made better. We thought her disease as Addison's disease caused by adrenal tuberculosis, revealed acute hypoadrenocorticism.