Suprarenal Hemorrhage in Pregnancy

Abstract

KEELE and Keele¹ made the first attempt to distinguish between the adrenal hemorrhage occurring in the course of septicemia, as in the Water-house–Friderichsen syndrome, and the adrenal hemorrhage occurring independently of any infectious process, for which the synonymous terms of hemorrhagic suprarenal infarction, acute hemorrhagic adrenalitis, spontaneous suprarenal hemorrhage and suprarenal apoplexy have been suggested.Table 1, in which the pertinent data of the 19 cases of the literature (including the 1 presented below) are shown in comparison, reveals the condition to be twice as frequent in the male as in the female, without any apparent relation to age, the youngest . . .