Treatment of hypertensive forms of congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Turpin, G.; Heshmati, H.M.; Jambart, S.; de Gennes, J.L.
Annales de Medecine Interne 134(3): 256-258
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-410X PMID: 6605107 Document Number: 205176
The treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (hypertensive forms) is based, as in the other forms of congenital adrenal hyperplasia, on corticosteroid therapy. The choice of drug, dosage, precocity, clinical and biological surveillance, are analysed in turn. The results on pubertal development, adult size, gonad development in the 11-betahydroxylase deficit type, are considered in the light of recent studies. The treatment of the 17-alpha-hydroxylase type is also based on the inhibition of glucocorticoid secretion. Results are satisfactory in the few cases published.