ACTA ENDOCRINOLOGICA-BUCHAREST, cilt.15, sa.4, ss.466-471, 2019 (SCI-Expanded)
Background. Relative adrenal insufficiency (RAI) is the inadequate production of cortisol due to dysfunction of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis during a severe illness. We evaluated the HPA axis and RAI in a tertiary pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).