High Risk of Hypopituitarism after Traumatic Brain Injury: A Prospective Investigation of Anterior Pituitary Function in the Acute Phase and 12 Months after Trauma
Author(s) -
Fatih Tanrıverdi,
Hakan Senyurek,
Kürşad Ünlühızarcı,
Ahmet Selçuklu,
Felipe F. Casanueva,
Fahrettin Keleştimur
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206
H-Index - 353
eISSN - 1945-7197
pISSN - 0021-972X
DOI - 10.1210/jc.2005-2476
Subject(s) - hypopituitarism , anterior pituitary , medicine , growth hormone deficiency , hormone , endocrinology , traumatic brain injury , adrenocorticotropic hormone , basal (medicine) , pituitary gland , prospective cohort study , growth hormone , psychiatry , insulin
Recent data have demonstrated that traumatic brain injury (TBI)-mediated hypopituitarism could be more frequent than previously known. However, most previous data were obtained from retrospective studies.
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