Postpartum pituitary apoplexy with isolated oculomotor nerve palsy: A rare medical emergency

Pituitary apoplexy is a clinical syndrome characterized by sudden onset headache, visual deficits, ophthalmoplegia, altered mental status, and hormonal dysfunction due to an expanding mass within the sella turcica resulting from hemorrhage or infarction of pituitary gland. We report a case of pituit...

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Autores principales: Raina, Sujeet, Jearth, Vaneet, Sharma, Ashish, Sharma, Rajesh, Mistry, Kewal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4692026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26752912
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.165348
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author Raina, Sujeet
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description Pituitary apoplexy is a clinical syndrome characterized by sudden onset headache, visual deficits, ophthalmoplegia, altered mental status, and hormonal dysfunction due to an expanding mass within the sella turcica resulting from hemorrhage or infarction of pituitary gland. We report a case of pituitary apoplexy that developed in postpartum period following postpartum hemorrhage and presented with isolated third cranial nerve palsy.
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spelling pubmed-46920262016-01-08 Postpartum pituitary apoplexy with isolated oculomotor nerve palsy: A rare medical emergency Raina, Sujeet Jearth, Vaneet Sharma, Ashish Sharma, Rajesh Mistry, Kewal J Neurosci Rural Pract Case Report Pituitary apoplexy is a clinical syndrome characterized by sudden onset headache, visual deficits, ophthalmoplegia, altered mental status, and hormonal dysfunction due to an expanding mass within the sella turcica resulting from hemorrhage or infarction of pituitary gland. We report a case of pituitary apoplexy that developed in postpartum period following postpartum hemorrhage and presented with isolated third cranial nerve palsy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4692026/ /pubmed/26752912 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.165348 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Postpartum pituitary apoplexy with isolated oculomotor nerve palsy: A rare medical emergency
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title_full Postpartum pituitary apoplexy with isolated oculomotor nerve palsy: A rare medical emergency
title_fullStr Postpartum pituitary apoplexy with isolated oculomotor nerve palsy: A rare medical emergency
title_full_unstemmed Postpartum pituitary apoplexy with isolated oculomotor nerve palsy: A rare medical emergency
title_short Postpartum pituitary apoplexy with isolated oculomotor nerve palsy: A rare medical emergency
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