Cardiovascular dysfunction risk in young adults with congenital adrenal hyperplasia caused by 21-hydroxylase enzyme deficiency.
Juliano Henrique BorgesRenata Isa SantoroDaniel Minutti de OliveiraSofia Helena Valente de Lemos-MariniBruno GelonezeGil Guerra JuniorEzequiel Moreira GonçalvesPublished in: International journal of clinical practice (2021)
No signs of cardiovascular dysfunction were observed in any patient. The daily dose of glucocorticoids may play a role in the mechanisms of some markers of cardiac hypertrophy, left ventricular and aortic dilation and subclinical atherosclerosis.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- young adults
- oxidative stress
- cardiovascular disease
- case report
- aortic valve
- heart failure
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- acute myocardial infarction
- mitral valve
- physical activity
- aortic stenosis
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- pulmonary artery
- type diabetes
- replacement therapy
- coronary artery
- coronary artery disease
- atrial fibrillation
- acute coronary syndrome
- ejection fraction
- childhood cancer
- smoking cessation
- percutaneous coronary intervention