<unk>  adrenal<unk>  is caused mainly by four categories, hypopituitarism, drugs, genetic and other causes. Life-threatening causes include acute withdrawal of steroids, adrenal hemorrhage, Waterhouse-Friderichson syndrome, anticoagulation and gastroenteritis which causes adrenal crisis. The common causes include chronic steroid therapy and its withdrawal, opiates, causes of panhypopituitarism and the less common causes are genetic causes which include combined pituitary hormone deficiency (CPHD), proopiomelanocortin deficiency POMC and isolated ACTH deficiency.
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