Pregnancy and Adrenocortical Function: Endocrine Studies of Pregnancy Occurring in Two Adrenal-Deficient Women1

Abstract

(1) that when adrenal-deficient women become pregnant, they exhibit "simulated adrenal cortical activity" attributable to an extra-adrenal source of "adrenal cortical-like" hormone. Observations which can be interpreted as lending support to this view may be summarized as follows: