COVID-19 and AI Patients

COVID-19 Information for Adults & Children with Adrenal Insufficiency

🆘Give to all emergency and hospital personnel 🆘

#covid #ER #AandE

[ Print multiple copies and place them with your emergency kit in your purse or car. Print another for your loved ones.]

The National Adrenal Disease Foundation has been conducting a survey (link below) regarding your concerns about COVID-19 with adrenal insufficiency. Survey responses have provided excellent insight into concerns regarding COVID-19. Specifically, many people with adrenal insufficiency are worried that EMS, Emergency Room or hospital staff will not know how to treat them properly. To address this concern, NADF has created a one-page 'handout' document with medical staff instructions for adults and children. As always, the guidance provided in the document has been fully approved by our medical advisors. Download the PDF below for printing.

If you do find yourself in a situation where you have COVID-19 and need to go to the hospital, please don't hesitate to hand this to all medical personnel involved in your care.

https://www.nadf.us/covid-19-information.html

To participate in the NADF survey, click here: 

(https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W2NQSMD)

Cushing’s and Bilateral Adrenal Tumors

This post is for those with nodules on both adrenal glands, and the endo/ surgeon wants to remove one first to see how it goes. Before you agree, be sure to ask to be tested for Conn's and the gene PRKAR1A. [In fact, there are other genetic causes for bilateral adrenal tumors like iMAD, PRKACA, PRKAR1A, GNAS, PDE11A, PDE8B,PBMAH, ARMC5, plus others].

PPNAD/ normal CT scan.

PRKAR1A-negative familial Cushing's syndrome: two case reports
Lee Ling Lim et al. J Med Case Rep. 2015.

CONCLUSION:
"The cases of these two patients illustrate the difficulties involved in diagnosing primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease, a variant of adrenocorticotropic hormone-independent Cushing's syndrome that is managed with bilateral adrenalectomy. A high index of suspicion for this disease is needed, especially in adolescents with adrenocorticotropic hormone-independent Cushing's syndrome who have a significant family history, features of Carney's complex, and no resolution of Cushing's syndrome after unilateral adrenalectomy.

**Patients with primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease can either have bilateral/multiple adrenal nodules or normal adrenal glands visualized by computed tomography.*** Long-term surveillance is imperative in patients with confirmed Carney's complex and in those who have not undergone complete genetic testing to exclude this hereditary disorder."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26619967/