[Glucocorticoid therapy in endocrine disease].

Natural and synthetic glucocorticoids have been used not merely to manage chronic and acute adrenocortical insufficiency as replacement therapy, but to manage a wide variety of conditions as pharmacological agents. In endocrine disease, they are also used to achieve pharmacological effects, not necessarily related to normal physiological roles. In general, the desired effects is suppression of immune reactivity or inflammatory process. According to these effects, they are used to manage Graves' ophthalmopathy and subacute thyroiditis. They are also given to manage thyroid storm and hyperparathyroid crisis.