Abstract:Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome is a rare disease characterized by bleeding into the adrenal glands, and its symptoms may vary from non-specific abdominal pain to multi-organ failure. Commonly related to a variety of infectious diseases among which sepsis from Neisseria meningitidis is the most frequent, many other etiologies have been described, and in some rare cases, even no apparent cause can be identified. We report a rare case of an idiopathic bilateral adrenal hemorrhage in a 70-year-old male who prese… Show more
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