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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:
Overview
Medical Therapy
- Treatment involves appropriate hormone replacement therapy, which must be taken for the rest of your life that results in significant improvement of not only the physical symptoms but also the psychological symptoms.[1]
- In patients with combined hypothyroidism and hypocortisolism, glucocorticoids(physiologic doses) are replaced first than thyroid hormone replacement.
- DDAVP is the treatment of choice for patients with DI.[2]
- GH is replaced on case to case basis starting with a low dose(0.1-0.3mg/day) and titrated upwards by 0.1mg/d/month with repeated measurement of hormone levels every month initially for the first 6months followed by yearly measurements and is replaced once all other hormones have been replaced.[3]
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- ↑ Parikh R, Buch V, Makwana M, Buch HN (2016). "The price of a 15-year delay in diagnosis of Sheehan's syndrome". Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 29 (2): 212–3. PMC 4790577. PMID 27034575.
- ↑ Soares DV, Conceição FL, Vaisman M (2008). "[Clinical, laboratory and therapeutics aspects of Sheehan's syndrome]". Arq Bras Endocrinol Metabol (in Portuguese). 52 (5): 872–8. PMID 18797595.
- ↑ Tessnow AH, Wilson JD (2010). "The changing face of Sheehan's syndrome". Am. J. Med. Sci. 340 (5): 402–6. doi:10.1097/MAJ.0b013e3181f8c6df. PMID 20944496.