The ICET-A Survey on Current Criteria Used by Clinicians for the Assessment of Central Adrenal Insufficiency in Thalassemia: Analysis of Results and Recommendations


De Sanctis V., Soliman A. T., Elsedfy H., Albu A., Al Jaouni S., Al Yaarubi S., ...Daha Fazla

MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES, cilt.8, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

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Background: In March 2015, the International Network of Clinicians for Endocrinopathies in Thalassemia and Adolescent Medicine (ICET-A) implemented a two-step survey on central adrenal insufficiency (CAI) assessment in TM patients and after analysis of the collected data, recommendations for the assessment of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in clinical practice were defined.