Adrenogenital syndrome (congenital dysfunction of a cortex of adrenals, a congenital hyperplasia of a cortex of adrenals) - group of hereditary diseases in which basis the failure of enzymes at various levels of hormones of a cortex of adrenals - Cortisonum and Aldosteronum lays.

Pathogenesis. Hereditary defect in enzymatic systems leads to depression of the maintenance in a blood of Cortisonum and Aldosteronum. Synthesis of sexual hormones thus in a cortex of adrenals is not broken.