panhypopituitarism

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pan·hy·po·pi·tu·i·tar·ism

[MIM*312000]
n. panhipopituitarismo, deficiencia de la pituitaria anterior.
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panhypopituitarism

n panhipopituitarismo
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KEYWORDS: Empty sella syndrome, Hypopituitarism, Panhypopituitarism, Sheehan's syndrome.
A small study from India reported a frequency of 84% pituitary tumors in patients with panhypopituitarism.11 Another study, from United Kingdom, also reported non-functioning pituitary tumor and craniopharyngioma, as the leading cause for hypopituitarism.12 The reason to seek medical care was symptoms related to mass effect, rather than hormonal dysfunction per se, in patients with Craniopharyngioma in our study.
PRL deficiency: PRL concentration is low in cases with POU1F1, LHX3, OTX2 and IGFSF-1 gene mutations and in cases of panhypopituitarism. Values below 31 ng/mL in the first 30 postnatal days and 24 ng/mL between the 30th-60th days are accepted as hypoprolactinemia (60).
Exophthalmos, cerebellar ataxia, and panhypopituitarism may also occur.
Diabetes insipidus, panhypopituitarism, and severe mental status deterioration in a patient with chordoid glioma: case report and literature review.
An atypical cause of trigeminal neuralgia and panhypopituitarism. Br J Radiol 2010 Dec;83(996):1087-1089.
Alison Kilgour's eight-year old son Lliam has panhypopituitarism - a condition of inadequate or absent production of the anterior pituitary hormones.
Participants with a history of any of the following conditions were excluded: hypogonadism, panhypopituitarism, diabetes, head trauma, renal failure, hemochromatosis, cirrhosis, hepatitis C infection, human immunodeficiency virus infection, and treatment with testosterone or oral steroids.
Elevated prolactin and reduced growth hormone levels are the most common hormonal disturbances, followed by gonadotropin deficiency, panhypopituitarism, hypothyroidism, and hypocortisolism (5).
In fact, a seminal case of fatty liver (FL) resolution with GH administration in a 17-year-old patient with panhypopituitarism treated initially with levothyroxine and hydrocortisone alone was reported by Takano et al.
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