Vomiting and Cardiac Arrest in a 10-Year-Old Girl

ABSTRACT: Primary adrenal insufficiency is a potentially life-threatening condition that provides a diagnostic challenge because many patients have months to years of insidious symptomatology. Adrenal crisis is the extreme acute manifestation of primary adrenal insufficiency, presenting with any, or all, of severe weakness, altered mental status, hypotension, and rarely cardiorespiratory arrest. Primary adrenal insufficiency should be …