Injecting performance enhancing corticosteroid hormones for other than medical treatment is banned, and tests exist that can detect injected hormones. Injecting synacthen, which stimulates the body to ...
The researchers estimate that the at-home test could reduce the number of Short Synacthen Tests undertaken for diagnosing adrenal insufficiency, from 92,000 per year to just 23,000 across England. The ...
To establish whether hypothalmic-pituitary-adrenal axis suppression is possible secondary to long-term topical ophthalmic corticosteroid use in patients who have undergone penetrating keratoplasty ...
The high-dose short Synacthen ® (Alliance Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Chippenham, UK) (corticotropin) test (SST) is often used as an alternative to the insulin tolerance (hypoglycemia) test (ITT) in the ...
A new at-home saliva test that could offer a simpler and more rapid way to diagnose adrenal insufficiency among patients at high risk has been unveiled by researchers at the University of Sheffield.