ALLMedicine™ Pituitary Apoplexy Center

May 15th, 2022 - Involvement of the pituitary gland in SARS-CoV-2 infection has been clinically suggested by pituitary hormone deficiency in severe COVID-19 cases, by altered serum ACTH levels in hospitalized patients, and by cases of pituitary apoplexy. However, ...

Mar 29th, 2022 - Brain stroke is a rare, life-threatening condition associated with pituitary apoplexy (PA), resulting from direct arterial occlusion due to mechanical compression secondary to the sudden enlargement of the pituitary adenoma, or to vessel vasospasm...

Mar 9th, 2022 - Pituitary apoplexy (PA) is a clinical condition characterised by a sudden increase in pituitary gland volume secondary to ischaemia and/or necrosis. Most cases occur in non-functioning pituitary adenoma but can also occur in functioning adenoma. C...

Mar 9th, 2022 - True pituitary surgical emergencies are rare. These events can occur throughout the perioperative period and are broadly categorized by the timing of occurrence. Acute indications for emergent pituitary surgery include pituitary apoplexy, vision l...

Jan 25th, 2022 - The condition of pituitary apoplexia contains the clinical spectre from life-threatening emergency to asymptomatic self-limiting course, which partly determines diagnostic delay and management. Outcome evaluation of course and management of pituit...

Apr 9th, 2011 - The aim was to formulate practice guidelines for endocrine evaluation and treatment of pituitary incidentalomas. Consensus was guided by systematic reviews of evidence and discussions through a series of conference calls and e-mails and one in-per...

Sep 17th, 2021 - Oculomotor nerve (third cranial nerve or "III") palsy is a relatively frequent cause of consultation in ophthalmology. It may reveal a life-threatening pathology such as aneurysm rupture, pituitary apoplexy, and therefore need imaging in emergency...

Jul 16th, 2021 - Oculomotor nerve (third cranial nerve or III) palsy is a relatively frequent cause of consultation in ophthalmology. It may reveal a life-threatening pathology such as aneurysm rupture, pituitary apoplexy, and therefore need imaging in emergency. ...

Feb 6th, 2017 - The most common symptom of pituitary apoplexy is headache. Almost all patients describe a sudden, severe retro-orbital or bifrontal headache, which is associated with vomiting in two thirds of cases.[4] The headache and vomiting result from the su...

Pituitary Pathology Pituitary Tumors The Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States reports the incidence of pituitary tumors to be 6% of all brain tumors.[3] Tumors involving the pituitary gland typically affect the anterior pituitary, or ...

Abstract and Introduction Abstract Pituitary apoplexy is a rare and life-threatening disorder often requiring emergency neurosurgical intervention to preserve vision and prevent cerebral herniation syndrome. Infarction or hemorrhage of an enlarged...

Abstract and Introduction Objective: To report a case of silent pituitary infarction that occurred after a coronary artery bypass grafting procedure and review the relevant literature. Methods: We describe a female patient with silent pituitary in...

Abstract and Introduction Objective: To report a case of silent pituitary infarction that occurred after a coronary artery bypass grafting procedure and review the relevant literature. Methods: We describe a female patient with silent pituitary in...