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Heart failure with fludro-cortisone in Addison’s disease

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by A Bhattacharyya, DJ Tymms
Journal of Royal society of Medicine 1998:91;433-4

Autoimmune destruction of adrenal cortex causes Addison’s disease and demands lifelong replacement of glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids. We report a patient with a normal heart who developed heart failure on replacement fludrocortisone.