pituitary insufficiency

Endocrinology A condition in which the pituitary fails to produce enough of one or more hormones. See Pituitary apoplexy, Pituitary infarction.

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Patients with suprasellar lesions commonly present with visual field defects, pituitary insufficiency, and symptoms of raised intracranial pressure.

An Infrasellar Craniopharyngioma Involving the Sphenoid Sinus and Clivus

CONSEQUENCES: Pituitary insufficiency may have serious consequences, possibly aggravating the physical and neuropsychiatric morbidity observed after TBI:

Neuroendocrine disturbances following head injuries

Other common space-occupying effects of intracranial aneurysm include visual field deficits (contralateral homonymous hemianopia) in relation to compression of the optic tract, mental derangements if the aneurysm compresses the mammillary bodies, and pituitary insufficiency if the aneurysm grows into the sella turcica [5].

Posterior communicating artery aneurysm presenting with writing apraxia

PA often occurs spontaneously in pituitary macroadenomas and may be associated with varying degrees of pituitary insufficiency (2).

Spontaneous remission of acromegaly following subclinical pituitary apoplexy/Subklinik hipofizer apopleksiyi takiben spontan remisyona giren akromegali

3) A life-threatening pituitary insufficiency or an acute adrenal crisis may occur.

Acute pituitary apoplexy complicating a pituitary macroadenoma

The syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis is a diagnosis of exclusion that can be established only if diuretic use and adrenal, thyroid, and pituitary insufficiency are excluded.

Severe hyponatremia with high urine sodium and osmolality

Among the causes of osteoporosis identified, in 5 patients it was attributed to hypogonadism secondary to pituitary insufficiency due to hypothalamic-pituitary tumors such as craniopharyngioma (3 patients), ependymoma in 1 patient, and growth hormone- producing tumor also in 1 patient.

Effect of alendronate on bone mineral density in Puerto Rican males with osteoporosis

Other less frequently encountered findings include trigeminal nerve hypoesthesia and pituitary insufficiency.

Sphenoid sinus mucocele: A rare complication of transsphenoidal hypophysectomy. (Original Article)

Similar to the present case, approximately half of patients will present with signs of partial pituitary insufficiency or hyperprolactinemia, presumably resulting from stalk effect?

Pituitary Mass in a 48-Year-Old Woman

Thirty percent of the injured patients have transient pituitary insufficiency, particularly growth hormone (GH) and gonadotrophin deficiency, which normalizes one year after injury in most of the cases (4).

Anterior hypopituitarism after traumatic brain injury: a case report/Travmatik beyin yaralanmasindan sonra gelisen anterior hipopituitarizm: olgu sunumu