How to check the symptoms of adrenal gland disease in women

Adrenal gland disease is a common endocrine disease in clinic. Adrenal gland disease may occur in both male and female patients. For female patients, the symptoms related to specific adrenal diseases are roughly as follows. There are many types of adrenal diseases in clinical practice, among which the most common are adrenal hyperfunction, adrenal hypofunction, Cushing's syndrome, adrenal related tumors, pheochromocytoma, adrenal cortical tumor and other diseases, and the symptoms of specific diseases are also different. If the adrenal disease is hyperaldosteronism, the female patient will exhibit marked hypertension, hypokalemia, weakness of the limbs, and possibly periodic paralysis; if cortisol is problematic, the patient will exhibit concentric obesity, full moon face, buffalo back, and other related symptoms. At the same time, female patients will show decreased libido, menstrual disorders, often even show amenorrhea, some female patients will show acne, small crisp hair increased performance. Adrenal disease examination from the functional and morphological aspects of the examination, morphological examination is mainly through imaging examination can do ultrasound, ct or magnetic resonance imaging; In addition to morphological examination, adrenal function examination, detection of adrenal hormone levels and related hormones and its clinical water electrolyte and metabolic indicators, and further excitation test or inhibition test to understand hormone changes and reserve capacity.