Pituitary apoplexy presenting as myocardial infarction

We describe a male patient who presented with sudden onset severe headache and right sided ptosis that was diagnosed to be secondary to pituitary apoplexy on the background of diabetes mellitus. This was complicated by left ventricular failure and acute coronary syndrome. The case highlights the imp...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Vishal, Patil, Sudarshan, Raval, Dhiren, Gopani, Pratik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24741524
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.129119
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description We describe a male patient who presented with sudden onset severe headache and right sided ptosis that was diagnosed to be secondary to pituitary apoplexy on the background of diabetes mellitus. This was complicated by left ventricular failure and acute coronary syndrome. The case highlights the importance of considering hypocortisolism/hypopituitarism as an important and rare precipitant of an acute coronary event as occurred in the case.
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spelling pubmed-39872782014-04-16 Pituitary apoplexy presenting as myocardial infarction Gupta, Vishal Patil, Sudarshan Raval, Dhiren Gopani, Pratik Indian J Endocrinol Metab Case Report We describe a male patient who presented with sudden onset severe headache and right sided ptosis that was diagnosed to be secondary to pituitary apoplexy on the background of diabetes mellitus. This was complicated by left ventricular failure and acute coronary syndrome. The case highlights the importance of considering hypocortisolism/hypopituitarism as an important and rare precipitant of an acute coronary event as occurred in the case. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3987278/ /pubmed/24741524 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.129119 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pituitary apoplexy presenting as myocardial infarction
title Pituitary apoplexy presenting as myocardial infarction
title_full Pituitary apoplexy presenting as myocardial infarction
title_fullStr Pituitary apoplexy presenting as myocardial infarction
title_full_unstemmed Pituitary apoplexy presenting as myocardial infarction
title_short Pituitary apoplexy presenting as myocardial infarction
title_sort pituitary apoplexy presenting as myocardial infarction
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24741524
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