Fig. 6.  Survival curves of patients according to total adrenal gland volume (≤ or more than 10 cm³) (A ), basal (< or ≥ 32 μg/dl) (B ), response plasma cortisol concentration (≤ or more than 2.7 μg/dl) (C ) and response plasma cortisol concentration (< or ≥ 9 μg/dl)8(D ) in the validation 184 septic shock patients (n = 184). (A ), Twenty-two of the 139 patients with total adrenal gland volume of 10 cm³or more died at day 28 compared with 37 of the 45 with total adrenal gland volume less than 10 cm³; P < 0.01. (To convert values for cortisol to nM/l, multiply by 27.6).