Narváez-Casillas VE, Vargas-Hernández A

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ABSTRACT

Introduction. The Addison’s disease is a pathology of slow and progressive evolution, caused by the insufficient offer of hormones corticosuprarrenales to the habitual demands of the organism that have their origin in the bilateral destruction of the suprarenal bark. It is difficult to understand today the Addison’s disease but it is in the context of the autoimmune poliglandular syndromes, given the frequent association with other endocrinopathies. Objective. To describe the case of a 15 year-old boy, with Addison’s disease of autoimmune ethiology, since a low incidence is reported and especially in the pediatric age of 0.83 cases for 100,000 inhabitants a year. Case report. Masculine patient of 15 years of age, which began 2 years ago with hiperpigmentation in teguments and lost of weight with little gain ponderal, one year ago with widespread weakness, asthenia, adinamia, emotional labilidad, with avidity for the salt, sintomathology that is exacerbated in the month of January 2007 with anorexy, sicknesses, you nauseate without arriving to the vomit, migraine, vertigo and important abdominal pain, managed for half particular as peptic illness acid without improvement. Conclusion. The Addison’s disease of autoimmune ethiology is not very frequent in pediatric stages, a high index of suspicion is required for its diagnosis and to begin a substitute opportune treatment.

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