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| ==Overview== | | ==Overview== |
| ==Pathophysiology== | | ==Pathophysiology== |
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| ===Background on pituitary gland blood supply===
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| *In order to understand the pathophysiology of hypopituitarism, it is necessary to know the blood supply of the pituitary as the disease occurs mainly by ischemia through different mechanisms like hemorrhage, tumors or brain injury.<ref name="pmid18481181">{{cite journal| author=Dusick JR, Wang C, Cohan P, Swerdloff R, Kelly DF| title=Pathophysiology of hypopituitarism in the setting of brain injury. | journal=Pituitary | year= 2012 | volume= 15 | issue= 1 | pages= 2-9 | pmid=18481181 | doi=10.1007/s11102-008-0130-6 | pmc=4170072 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=18481181 }} </ref><ref name="pmid17467517">{{cite journal| author=Schneider HJ, Aimaretti G, Kreitschmann-Andermahr I, Stalla GK, Ghigo E| title=Hypopituitarism. | journal=Lancet | year= 2007 | volume= 369 | issue= 9571 | pages= 1461-70 | pmid=17467517 | doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60673-4 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=17467517 }} </ref> | |
| *Pituitary gland is composed of two parts anterior (adenohypophysis) and posterior (neurohypophysis). Both parts are supplied by the carotid arteries. | |
| *Adenohypophysis: It receives blood supply from the long and short hypophyseal arteries which arise from the internal carotid artery and the anterior of circle of willis.
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| *Neurohypophysis: It receives the blood supply from the inferior and middle hypophyseal arteries.
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| ===Pathogenesis===
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| *Hypopituitarism pathogenesis is mainly due to destruction of the gland cells by different ways like ischemia, inflammation or infiltration. However, ischemia is believed to be the cornerstone of hypopituitarism pathogenesis caused via different ways.<ref name="pmid12675508">{{cite journal| author=Arafah BM| title=Medical management of hypopituitarism in patients with pituitary adenomas. | journal=Pituitary | year= 2002 | volume= 5 | issue= 2 | pages= 109-17 | pmid=12675508 | doi= | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=12675508 }} </ref><ref name="Vance1994">{{cite journal|last1=Vance|first1=Mary Lee|title=Hypopituitarism|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|volume=330|issue=23|year=1994|pages=1651–1662|issn=0028-4793|doi=10.1056/NEJM199406093302306}}</ref>
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| *Compression of the blood vessels:<ref name="pmid10843153">{{cite journal| author=Arafah BM, Prunty D, Ybarra J, Hlavin ML, Selman WR| title=The dominant role of increased intrasellar pressure in the pathogenesis of hypopituitarism, hyperprolactinemia, and headaches in patients with pituitary adenomas. | journal=J Clin Endocrinol Metab | year= 2000 | volume= 85 | issue= 5 | pages= 1789-93 | pmid=10843153 | doi=10.1210/jcem.85.5.6611 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=10843153 }} </ref>
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| **Pituitary adenoma, secretory or non secretory, is one of the common causes that lead to loss of the pituitary function through causing ischemia.
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| **Large adenomas (more than 1.5 cm) cause loss of function more than microadenomas. They cause compression on the pituitary stalk and the hypophyseal portal vessels which supply the gland with blood.
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| **The tumor growth in the gland participates in increasing the intrasellar pressure which cause impairment in the hypophyseal vessels.
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| **Other lesions lead to compression includes carotid artery aneurysm, meningioma and craniopharyngioma.
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
| {{Reflist|2}} | | {{Reflist|2}} |