Acute Primary Adrenal Insufficiency after Hip Replacement in a Patient with Acute Intermittent Porphyria

Table 2

Adrenal function before hip replacement and during follow-up.

	Time with respect to hip replacement
	One year before	19 days after	21 days after	3 months after	12 months after	30 months after
ACTH (pM/L) n.v. 2–14	4	43		71	11	18
Basal cortisol (nM/L) n.v. 165.5–507.7	998.8	163.3	278.7	149.0	366.9	477.3
Cortisol 30′ after ACTH 250 µg iv			278.7	162.8	366.9	460.8
Cortisol 60′ after ACTH 250 µg iv			264.9	154.5	331.1	502.1