Persistent Hypothalamic-Pituitary Insufficiency Following Acute Meningoencephalitis
| Autor: | Lennart Åström, Erik Hägg, Lars Steen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Male Thyroid Hormones Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Hypothalamus Thyroid Gland Coxsackievirus Infections Pituitary Insufficiency Hypopituitarism Hypothyroidism Meningoencephalitis Internal Medicine medicine Humans Endocrine system business.industry Thyroid Middle Aged medicine.disease Hypothalamic lesion Pituitary Hormones medicine.anatomical_structure Pituitary Gland Acute Disease Female business Encephalitis Hormone |
| Zdroj: | Acta Medica Scandinavica. 203:231-235 |
| ISSN: | 0001-6101 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.0954-6820.1978.tb14862.x |
| Popis: | This report concerns two patients, a 43-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man, who developed clinical as well as laboratory signs of permanent gonodal and thyroid failure following an acute intracranial infection--in the woman a meningoencephalitis of unknown origin, and in the man an encephalitis caused by Coxsackie B5. Endocrine investigations were compatible with hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction, with some of the results favoring a hypothalamic lesion. Perhaps hormone deficiency of hypothalamic and/or pituitary origin is a more common sequel of acute meningoencephalitis than has hitherto been reported. |
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