Visao geral da hiperplasia adrenal congenita pediatria. Adrenogenital syndrome is actually the congenital adrenal hyperplasia and it refers to a group of inherited disorders of the adrenal gland. In principle the congenital adrenal hyperplasia can affect both boys and girls but it is more often discovered in girls. Sindrome adrenogenital e diagnostico jeffcoate1965. The vast majority of cases is provoked by an inherited deficiency of 21hydroxylase, an enzyme required for the biosynthesis of. Hiperplasia suprarrenal congenita sindrome adrenogenital. Hiperplasia suprarrenal congenita o sindrome androgenital by.
Sindrome adrenogenitale dizionario medico corriere. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia causes the excessive production of adrenal androgens which trigger some body changes including masculinization, virilization and hermaphrodism. The term adrenogenital syndrome was applied to both sexsteroid producing tumors and severe forms of cah for much of the 20th century, before some of the forms of cah were understood. Adrenogenital syndrome congenital adrenal hyperplasia. In patients suffering from the adrenogenital syndrome, deficient corticosteroid release by the adrenal glands gives rise to an increased production of adrenocorticotropic hormone by the pituitary gland, which, in turn, causes an overproduction of sex steroids. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which also dates to the first half of the century, has become the preferred term to reduce ambiguity and to emphasize the. Females with congenital adrenal hyperplasia lack the enzyme called 21. Most of these conditions involve excessive or deficient production of sex steroids and can alter development of. Adrenogenital syndrome may be inherited genetic or developed because of adrenal tumor. Sindrome adrenogenital sintomas y tratamiento del sindrome. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is any of several autosomal recessive diseases resulting from mutations of genes for enzymes mediating the biochemical steps of production of mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids or sex steroids from cholesterol by the adrenal glands steroidogenesis. Most adrenogential syndromes are inherited autosomal recessive. Medicine, diagnosis, endocrinology, pediatrics, infants, pseudohermaphroditism, adrenogenital syndrome, congenital malformations, genetics. Sindrome adrenogenital hormona adrenocorticotropica.
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