MANIFESTATIONS OF SUPRARENAL INSUFFICIENCY OCCURRING WITH PITUITARY TUMOURS

Abstract

Case Histories Illustrating Suprarenal Failure The usually accepted description of hypofunction of the suprarenal glands includes the following symptoms: asthenia, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea; abdominal pain may occur, and also cerebral disturbances such as restlessness, depression, drowsiness. There may be troublesome hiccoughs. Pigmentation is common but not invariable; the blood pressure is usually low. As a " crisis " develops there may be vomiting, diarrhoea, fever, and even abdominal pain severe enough to simulate an acute 265