Adrenal insufficiency - Causes. 1  Causes of acute adrenal insufficiency are mainly sudden withdrawal of long-term corticosteroid therapy, Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, and stress in people with underlying chronic adrenal insufficiency.
Lipoatrophy is a common complication of protease inhibitor administration in HIV patients. These are antiretroviral medications that may lead to central fat accumulation and fat tissue loss in other parts of the body. Lipoatrophy caused by HIV medications are usually generalized or total.
This is called alkaline hydrolysis of esters. Since this reaction leads to the formation of soap, it is called the Saponification process. The soap molecule has two parts: a polar group (-COO-Na +) and a non-polar group (R-hydrocarbon part). The polar group is called the head and the non-polar group is called the tail.