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Addison's Disease Presenting with Muscle Spasm

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Specialty General Medicine
Date 2014 Apr 30
PMID 24772716
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Abstract

Primary hypoadrenalism has various causes and protean manifestation. We report a young female patient who presented with severe muscle spasm as her primary complaint. On evaluation she was found to be a case of Addison's disease secondary to adrenal tuberculosis. Her muscle spasm disappeared rapidly with replacement dose of glucocorticoid.