| Adrenal insufficiency
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| ICD-10 code:
| E27.1-E27.4
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| ICD-9 code:
| 255.4
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In medicine, adrenal insufficiency (or "hypocortisolism") is the inability of the adrenal gland to produce adequate amounts of cortisol in response to stress.
Causes can include:
- Acute adrenal insufficiency
- Addison's disease (autoimmune adrenalitis)
- Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome
- Chronic adrenal insufficiency
- Addison's disease
- congenital adrenal hyperplasia
- antiphospholipid syndrome
- haemochromatosis
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