Diseases

Hypopituitarism

Diminution or cessation of secretion of one or more hormones from the anterior pituitary gland (including LH; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; SOMATOTROPIN; and CORTICOTROPIN). This may result from surgical or radiation ablation, non-secretory PITUITARY NEOPLASMS, metastatic tumors, infarction, PITUITARY APOPLEXY, infiltrative or granulomatous processes, and other conditions.

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Diminution or cessation of secretion of one or more hormones from the anterior pituitary gland (including LH; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; SOMATOTROPIN; and CORTICOTROPIN). This may result from surgical or radiation ablation, non-secretory PITUITARY NEOPLASMS, metastatic tumors, infarction, PITUITARY APOPLEXY, infiltrative or granulomatous processes, and other conditions.

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  • Adenohypophyseal Hyposecretion
  • Anterior Pituitary Hyposecretion Syndrome
  • Hyposecretion Syndrome, Anterior Pituitary
  • Hyposecretion, Adenohypophyseal
  • Pituitary Insufficiency
  • Insufficiency, Pituitary
  • Postpartum Hypopituitarism
  • Postpartum Panhypopituitarism
  • Postpartum Pituitary Insufficiency
  • Sheehan Syndrome
  • Sheehan's Syndrome
  • Simmonds Disease
  • Simmonds' Disease
  • Disease, Simmonds
  • Hypopituitarism, Postpartum
  • Panhypopituitarism, Postpartum
  • Pituitary Insufficiency, Postpartum
  • Sheehans Syndrome
  • Simmond's Disease
  • Syndrome, Sheehan
  • Syndrome, Sheehan's

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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1963; for SIMMONDS' DISEASE & SHEEHAN'S SYNDROME use SIMMONDS' DISEASE 1963-1967

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Hypopituitarism. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007018. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007018
  2. Hypopituitarism. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypopituitarism
  3. Hypopituitarism. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922411