Vascular Diseases of the Endocrine Organs: Special Considerations

Susan M. Webb

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-37078-6_183

Vascular Diseases of the Endocrine Organs: Special Considerations

Susan M. Webb

Department of Medicine

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© 2015 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, All rights reserved. The endocrine glands are highly vascular organs in order to allow the hormones they secrete to reach the circulation and their targets. Thus, vascular disorders, mainly hemorrhages, may occur in any gland. While a gonadal or thyroid hemorrhage will usually present with local signs and symptoms, specific enough to direct the patient to a urologist/andrologist, gynecologist, or internist/endocrinologist, and is not associated with acute hormonal deficiencies which are life threatening, a massive adrenal or pituitary vascular insult is clinically much more cryptic and may be fatal if the cortisol insufficiency which ensues is not promptly treated with high-dose IV glucocorticoids. This section will deal with these two entities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PanVascular Medicine, Second Edition
Pages	4587-4592
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37078-6_183
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015

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