Hypopituitarism
Hypopituitarism - This is a relatively rare disease, associated with a decrease or complete shutdown function of the anterior pituitary. Hypopituitarism can be divided into primary and secondary.
Symptoms- Stomach pain, decreased appetite, nausea and vomiting, and constipation, excessive thirst and urination fatigue or weakness, headache and dizziness, sensitivity to cold, weight loss or weight gain.
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Primary hypopituitarism is the destruction or absence of some or all cells of the anterior pituitary gland.
secondary hypopituitarism include insufficient secretion of pituitary hormones called hypothalamic lesions
To lead the development of hypopituitarism following diseases:
1. pituitary adenoma, chromophobe often, less basophilic and eosinophilic. Hemorrhage in the pituitary adenoma or a heart attack.
2. Tumors of the hypothalamic-pituitary area: primary (craniopharyngioma, meningioma, glioma) and secondary - metastasis of malignant tumors at other sites (lung, breast.
3. granulomatous disease: sarcoidosis, a disease-hand-Christian Shyullera, histiocytosis X, tuberculosis, syphilis.
4. Vascular disorders (post-partum bleeding and other, resulting in hypotension and prolonged spasm of blood vessels of the pituitary, arteritis and aneurysm of cerebral vessels, bleeding in the pituitary gland, cavernous sinus thrombosis, acute disseminated intravascular coagulation syndrome).
5. Inflammatory diseases: encephalitis, basal meningitis (including tubercular origin), abscesses, septic cavernous sinus thrombosis.
6. Damage to the hypothalamic-pituitary region (including iatrogenic): skull trauma, hypophysectomy, irradiation of the hypothalamic-pituitary region syndrome 'empty' sella, implantation in the pituitary gland of radioactive yttrium or gold, cryosurgery pituitary.
7. Functional (for more details see. Below) of the hypothalamic-pituitary disorders that arise secondary to syndrome of insufficient intestinal absorption (malabsorption), diabetes, starvation, anorexia nervosa, chronic renal failure and others.
8. Congenital aplasia and hypoplasia of the pituitary gland
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