A Case Report on Pituitary Apoplexy Presenting as Acute Kidney Injury

Pituitary apoplexy is characterized by the acute ischemic or hemorrhagic infarction of the pituitary gland. Acute kidney injury is a less recognized complication associated with pituitary apoplexy but occasionally can be a presenting condition in patients with pituitary apoplexy. Here we discuss the...

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Autores principales: Shankar Kikkeri, Nidhi, Nagalli, Shivaraj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6334887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30656086
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3583
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description Pituitary apoplexy is characterized by the acute ischemic or hemorrhagic infarction of the pituitary gland. Acute kidney injury is a less recognized complication associated with pituitary apoplexy but occasionally can be a presenting condition in patients with pituitary apoplexy. Here we discuss the case of a patient who presented with significant volume depletion, admitted with acute kidney injury, and was later diagnosed with pituitary apoplexy.
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spelling pubmed-63348872019-01-17 A Case Report on Pituitary Apoplexy Presenting as Acute Kidney Injury Shankar Kikkeri, Nidhi Nagalli, Shivaraj Cureus Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism Pituitary apoplexy is characterized by the acute ischemic or hemorrhagic infarction of the pituitary gland. Acute kidney injury is a less recognized complication associated with pituitary apoplexy but occasionally can be a presenting condition in patients with pituitary apoplexy. Here we discuss the case of a patient who presented with significant volume depletion, admitted with acute kidney injury, and was later diagnosed with pituitary apoplexy. Cureus 2018-11-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6334887/ /pubmed/30656086 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3583 Text en Copyright © 2018, Shankar Kikkeri et al. http://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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title_short A Case Report on Pituitary Apoplexy Presenting as Acute Kidney Injury
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6334887/
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