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Hypopituitarism is a disorder characterized by insufficient secretion of one or more pituitary hormones. New etiologies of hypopituitarism have been recently described, including head trauma, cerebral hemorrhage, and drug-induced hypophysitis.
Heraldo Mendes Garmes +16 more
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Advances in understanding hypopituitarism [version 1; referees: 2 approved]
The understanding of hypopituitarism has increased over the last three years. This review provides an overview of the most important recent findings. Most of the recent research in hypopituitarism has focused on genetics.
Mareike R. Stieg +3 more
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Aim: Congenital hypopituitarism has an incidence of 1:3500–10,000 births and is defined by the impaired production of pituitary hormones. Early diagnosis has an impact on management and genetic counselling.
Marilena Nakaguma +12 more
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Hyponatremia as a leading sign of hypopituitarism
We report the case of a 67-year-old man admitted to our hospital in an obtunded state. We found that a severe hyponatremia (115 mEq/L) was the cause of patient's status. In turn, hyponatremia was due to hypopituitarism (nonfunctioning macroadenoma). Mild
Antonino Catalano, MD, PhD +6 more
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Introduction: Hypopituitarism is a rare, often underdiagnosed, complex hormonal disease caused by the decreased secretion of one or more hormones in the pituitary gland.
Árpád Kormányos +6 more
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Hypopituitarism: A Sequela of Severe Hypoxic Encephalopathy
Central diabetes insipidus (DI) is an established phenomenon after hypoxic encephalopathy or brain death, but hypopituitarism is seldom described. This study investigated the characteristics of 11 patients with DI and hypopituitarism which developed ...
Deng-Huang Su
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Background Metastasis to the pituitary gland is an infrequent clinical problem, and the symptoms caused by metastases have been reported in only 2.5–18.2% of the cases.
Ryohei Ono +5 more
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Introduction Individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) or subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) are at a high risk of hypopituitarism, and should benefit from early diagnosis and management.
Shigeyuki Tahara +2 more
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Genetic causes of hypopituitarism
Hypopituitarism in neonates is rare, but has life-threatening complications if untreated. This review describes the features of hypopituitarism and the evidence for which infants in whom a genetic cause should be suspected.
Katherine Parkin +3 more
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