Fatigue: the role of adrenal insufficiency.
The case described confirms the status of chronic fatigue among the most common--and most frustrating--of all the symptoms physicians are called on to evaluate. New theories regarding the causes of the complaint implicate not only neuroendocrine interactions but the immune system and its cytokines as well.
Siegel
R D
RD
New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston.
Melby
J
J
D000309:Adrenal Insufficiency / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005221:Fatigue / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007030:Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System / Q000503:physiopathology; D010913:Pituitary-Adrenal System / Q000503:physiopathology