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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Hypopituitarism has a big variety of risk factors that increase the possibility of | Hypopituitarism has a big variety of risk factors that increase the possibility of acquiring the disease. These risk factors incluide [[pituitary tumor]], [[brain injury]], [[head trauma]], [[genetic defects]], and [[brain surgery]]. | ||
==Risk Factors== | ==Risk Factors== | ||
===More common risk factors=== | ===More common risk factors=== | ||
Common risk factors of hypopituitarism include the following: <ref name="pmid25312299">{{cite journal| author=Khajeh L, Blijdorp K, Neggers SJ, Ribbers GM, Dippel DW, van Kooten F| title=Hypopituitarism after subarachnoid haemorrhage, do we know enough? | journal=BMC Neurol | year= 2014 | volume= 14 | issue= | pages= 205 | pmid=25312299 | doi=10.1186/s12883-014-0205-0 | pmc=4207357 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=25312299 }} </ref> | |||
*Pituitary tumor | *Pituitary tumor | ||
*Pituitary apoplexy | *Pituitary apoplexy | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ahmed Elsaiey, MBBCH [2]
Overview
Hypopituitarism has a big variety of risk factors that increase the possibility of acquiring the disease. These risk factors incluide pituitary tumor, brain injury, head trauma, genetic defects, and brain surgery.
Risk Factors
More common risk factors
Common risk factors of hypopituitarism include the following: [1]
- Pituitary tumor
- Pituitary apoplexy
- Pituitary surgery
- Cranial radiation
- Traumatic brain injury
- Genetic defects
- Hypothalamic disease
- Brain tumor
- Brain surgery
- Radiation treatment
- Autoimmune inflammation, such as hypophysitis
- Stroke
- Infections of the brain, such as meningitis
- Tuberculosis
- Infiltrative diseases, such as sarcoidosis, histiocytosis X, hemochromatosis.
- Severe loss of blood: Sheehan syndrome, or postpartum hypopituitarism
- Genetic mutations
References
- ↑ Khajeh L, Blijdorp K, Neggers SJ, Ribbers GM, Dippel DW, van Kooten F (2014). "Hypopituitarism after subarachnoid haemorrhage, do we know enough?". BMC Neurol. 14: 205. doi:10.1186/s12883-014-0205-0. PMC 4207357. PMID 25312299.