Saturday, January 14, 2012

Medical question, pretty hard, the answer is a adrenal related disease, but which one? Help me Dr. House!?

This is a clinical chemistry case study from the book Clinical Chemistry: Techniques, Principles Correlations. The question asks about a 22 yowf not taking meds, with no history and unknown family history... she has hypertension, weakness, irregular menses and hypokalemia. Related to her disease is her young age, borderline low cortisol and low androgens. The question ask what is the diagnosis?

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