Pituitary apoplexy causes

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Causes

Pituitary infarction is most commonly caused by bleeding due to a noncancerous tumor of the pituitary. When this bleeding occurs in a woman during or immediately after childbirth, it is called Sheehan syndrome.

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