chronic primary adrenal insufficiency

Chronic primary adrenal insufficiency has a number of causes. Primary adrenal insufficiency is termed Addison disease.

Pathology

Causes

• idiopathic atrophy: autoimmune adrenalitis
• tuberculosis : 25% calcify
• fungal disease 
  • histioplasmosis
  • blastomycosis
  • coccidioidomycosis
• AIDS 
• sarcoidosis 
• bilateral metastatic disease
• various genetic disorders
  • adrenoleukodystrophy
  • congenital adrenal hyperplasia
  • congenital lipoid adrenal hypoplasia
  • Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome
  • adrenal hypoplasia congenita
  • IMAGe syndrome
  • Kearns-Sayre syndrome
  • ACTH insensitivity syndromes (familial glucocorticoid deficiency)
  • triple A syndrome (Allgrove syndrome)

Siehe auch:

• Tuberkulose