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- Title
Hiperplasia Suprarrenal Congénita: Reporte de un caso clínico.
- Authors
Avaria E., Jaime; Vargas F., María José; Triviño F., Loreto; Gleisner E., Andrea
- Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is an autosomal recessive disease whose main cause is the deficiency of 21-hydroxylase, an enzyme involved in the synthesis of cortisol and aldosterone. There are two forms of CAH, a classical and nonclassical form, being the first objective of analysis in the clinical case. Its clinical manifestations vary in severity, depending on the level of hormone deficiency. Within the classic is described the salt-wasting form, whose consequences are androgen excess and insufficiency of cortisol and mineralocorticoids. So this may manifest as a sex differentiation disorder (virilization of the external genitalia if the fetus is female) and adrenal insufficiency. For diagnosis are considered the family history, clinical manifestations, measuring 17-hydroxyprogesterone levels and detection of genetic alteration. CASE REPORT: Patient with a family history of a brother with HSC brother, born with a disorder of sexual differentiation and is discharged with legal male sex. After three months develops adrenal insufficiency and was diagnosed with classical HSC salt-wasting form and determined female karyotype. DISCUSSION: The Pillars of the HSC are handling genetic counseling in families at risk, prenatal treatment with dexamethasone, postnatal glucocorticoid therapy and surgical treatment of disorders of the external genitalia, along with new research based therapy gene and the use of stem cells, requiring this way an integral view of HSC.
- Publication
Revista ANACEM, 2013, Vol 7, Issue 1, p38
- ISSN
0718-5308
- Publication type
Article