Cerebrospinal fluid cortisol levels are higher in patients with delirium versus controls

BACKGROUND: High plasma cortisol levels can cause acute cognitive and neuropsychiatric dysfunction, and have been linked with delirium. CSF cortisol levels more closely reflect brain exposure to cortisol, but there are no studies of CSF cortisol levels in delirium. In this pilot study we acquired CS...

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Autori principali: Pearson, Andrew, de Vries, Annick, Middleton, Scott D, Gillies, Fiona, White, Timothy O, Armstrong, Ian R, Andrew, Ruth, Seckl, Jonathan R, MacLullich, Alasdair MJ
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2010
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2829583/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181121
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-3-33
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