Enfermedad de Addison
Disease information
Enfermedad de Addison
Our organism is governed and controlled by two great systems
nervous
and the endocrino. On this last one they
depend
the hormone production and other vital elements that regulate diverse
metabolic
processes and these generate in the glands that we have located throughout the body and in some organs.
All the glands are important by the mission that they
develop
and of them with the suprarrenales glands, that are located in the kidneys and are in
charge
to produce hormones that are complex chemical substances that regulate many vital
functions
of the organism as they are: the adrenalin or epinefrina, related to the
fear
,
stress
, the pain, the anxiety and other reactions of the body, hidrocortisona and other steroids that help the immunological
system
and to regulate the glucose levels in blood and the
arterial
pressure; the aldosterone that maintains the balance of liquids and chemical substances; the androgens and the progesterone, necessary for the human reproduction.
The
disease
of
Addison
or
primary
suprarrenal insufficiency, is
a
chronic
and permanent
disease
that is developed as
a
result of an inadequate
function
of the suprarrenales glands, with an insufficient production of corticoids.
The sufferings of the suprarrenal gland also can be: Adrenal insufficiency, adrenocortical Hipofunción or
Chronic
Adrenocortical Insufficiency,
Syndrome
of Conn,
Syndrome
of
Cushing
, aldosteronismo or feocromocitoma.
This alteration takes place as
a
result of the gradual and progressive destruction of the suprarrenales glands, by an inflammatory process, metástasis of
tumors
or by diverse degenerative processes.
One does not know the cause or
origin
well this
atrophy
and although it can appear to any age, is between the 30 and 40 years when it does most frequently and with equal prevalence in both sexes.
Nevertheless the damages in the suprarrenales glands can be due
a
:
Problems
autoinmunes, is to say an
attack
of the immunological
system
of the body to the gland.
Tuberculosis
.
chronic
Infections
.
Citomagalovirus associated to the
AIDS
.
Infections
by fungi like: bastomicosis, histoplasmosis or coccidioidomicosis.
By originating
cancer
of the breasts, lung, kidneys, colon or by linfomas or sarcoma of Kapusi.
By irregular treatments with corticoesteroides.
By hemorrhages in the suprarrenales glands, caused by the use of anticoagulating medicines or state of shock.
By treatments with radiations. By the medicine use like ketoconazol or etomidate.
to suffer
chronic
diseases
like: Sarcoidosis, hemacromatosis, amiloidosis, adrenoleucodistrofia, adrenomielodistrofia.
Between the important factors of risk, they are:
Stress
.
Antecedent relatives with
disease
of
Addison
.
Diabetes
of Type I.
Pernicious Anemia
.
Hipoparatioidismo.
Hipopituitarismo.
Disease
of Serious.
serious Miastenia.
excessive medicine Consumption steroids or anticoagulants.
abdominal or renales Injuries or surgeries.
IMPORTANT:
The content of this note is informative and it does not replace the medical diagnosis, reason why we do not become people in
charge
on its use.
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