Clinical advances in the pharmacotherapy of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with 21-hydroxylase deficiency congenital adrenal hyperplasia (21OHD-CAH) have poor health outcomes with increased mortality, short stature, impaired fertility, and increased cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity. To address this, there are therapies in development that target the clinical goal of treatment, which is to control excess androgens with an adrenal replacement dose of glucocorticoid.

Methods

Narrative review of publications on recent clinical developments in the pharmacotherapy of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

Summary

Therapies in clinical development target different levels of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis. Two corticotrophin-releasing factor type 1 (CRF1) receptor antagonists, Crinecerfont and Tildacerfont, have been

SUBMITTER: Prete A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8679847 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature