Vision Deficit Due to Pituitary Apoplexy

Pituitary apoplexy means “sudden death” of the pituitary gland, usually caused by hemorrhage or infarction and often occurring in a pre-existing pituitary adenoma. In many cases, pituitary apoplexy is a medical and surgical emergency. Fast, efficient diagnosis and treatment are important in many cas...

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Autores principales: Shah, Siddharth, Khan, Rumana, Bayrakdar, Keenan, Scott, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10241991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37288197
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38649
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Khan, Rumana
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description Pituitary apoplexy means “sudden death” of the pituitary gland, usually caused by hemorrhage or infarction and often occurring in a pre-existing pituitary adenoma. In many cases, pituitary apoplexy is a medical and surgical emergency. Fast, efficient diagnosis and treatment are important in many cases. This case exemplifies an ideal lab workup and referral process to turn out best outcomes and prevent medical complications in our patient.
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spelling pubmed-102419912023-06-07 Vision Deficit Due to Pituitary Apoplexy Shah, Siddharth Khan, Rumana Bayrakdar, Keenan Scott, Christian Cureus Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism Pituitary apoplexy means “sudden death” of the pituitary gland, usually caused by hemorrhage or infarction and often occurring in a pre-existing pituitary adenoma. In many cases, pituitary apoplexy is a medical and surgical emergency. Fast, efficient diagnosis and treatment are important in many cases. This case exemplifies an ideal lab workup and referral process to turn out best outcomes and prevent medical complications in our patient. Cureus 2023-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10241991/ /pubmed/37288197 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38649 Text en Copyright © 2023, Shah et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Vision Deficit Due to Pituitary Apoplexy
title Vision Deficit Due to Pituitary Apoplexy
title_full Vision Deficit Due to Pituitary Apoplexy
title_fullStr Vision Deficit Due to Pituitary Apoplexy
title_full_unstemmed Vision Deficit Due to Pituitary Apoplexy
title_short Vision Deficit Due to Pituitary Apoplexy
title_sort vision deficit due to pituitary apoplexy
topic Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10241991/
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