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Acute adrenal insufficiency following unilateral radical nephrectomy: a case report
1Department of Urology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Geriatric Nephrology and Urology
|January 20, 1999
Abstract:
Adrenal insufficiency following unilateral radical nephrectomy has not been previously described in medical literature. We present a 78-year-old male patient who experienced a difficult postoperative course with vague findings, and was ultimately diagnosed with acute adrenal insufficiency. Treatment with glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids resulted in prompt control of the disease.