Talk:Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome

Adrenal insufficiency

The information regarding adrenal insufficiency is in conflict with several sources: It is sometimes said that the hemorrhage in Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome causes an acute adrenal insufficiency, but this is inaccurate, since blood cortisol levels are not decreased. The shock, purpura and intravascular clotting are probably the result of an endotoxin mediated immune reaction caused by sepsis.

It should be removed

This is speculative, probably wrong, and uncited. Also, regardless of the how the reaction is mediated, adrenal insufficiency caused by infection of adrenal glands, however the infection began, falls within Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome.

Ian 209.151.244.129 20:27, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm not tremendously familiar with this entity, but based on your comments at Talk:Adrenal insufficiency, I think it would be fine for you to remove or correct the article as you see fit. Other editors can object if they disagree. (P.S. I cleaned up the formatting of your comment above -- edit the page to see the changes to the markup -- purely for educational purposes, since it looks like you're new here. There's remarkably little need for HTML-style markup, which is nice.)  — JVinocur (talk • contribs) 19:50, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

About the html- its an old habbit that comes from boards. Thanks for the heads up! I've removed the speculative information. If anyone who is more familiar with this could expand on the topic, maybe include some pathology that I am unaware of, that would be most useful. Maybe a pre-med, or someone who's specializes in infectious disease or endocrinology — Tiny.ian 17:44, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Removed section on meningitis

All cases of WFS are not preceded by meningococcal meningitis, so I removed this section detailing that condition's epidemiology:

Meningococcal meningitis occurs most commonly in children and young adults, and can occur in epidemics. In the United States it is the cause of about 20% of meningitis cases. At one time it was common among military recruits, but administration of the preventive meningococcal vaccine has greatly reduced this number. Freshman college students living in dormitory housing who have not been vaccinated are another risk group. Finally, infants between 6 months and 2 years of age are also at a high risk, since they have lost maternal antibodies against the bacteria by the age of 6 months, and it will take them until the age of 2 years before they start producing their own antibodies.

Cheers, David Iberri (talk) 00:01, 27 August 2008 (UTC)