diabetes mellitus and accelerated heart disease. If untreated, hormone-excess syndromes can be lethal. Some pituitary adenomas grow rapidly, producing symptoms of an intracranial mass, loss of ...
If the condition only seems to affect the pituitary gland in the family, then the disease is known as Familial Isolated Pituitary Adenoma (FIPA). Genes are the coded instructions that control the ...
Evaluation of the adequacy of pituitary function, particularly in 'sick' hospitalized patients, can be challenging. In this regard Betul Hatipoglu (Endocrinology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation [CCF ...
However, a small group of patients with pituitary adenomas also have family members with similar disease. If no other hormone abnormality is present the patients has Familial Isolated Pituitary ...
In a previous study, 5 no difference in mortality rates was observed in patients with pituitary diseases other than acromegaly who received hydrocortisone replacement therapy compared with ...
At the Baylor Medicine Pituitary Center in Houston, Texas, we offer comprehensive and expert care for all pituitary-related disorders, including all tumors of the pituitary and sellar region.
In a landmark review celebrating Dr. Seymour Reichlin's centennial, Professor Mark E. Molitch traces the remarkable evolution of pituitary tumor treatments from the foundational neuroendocrinology ...