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Hypopituitarism and Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adult Subjects after Traumatic Brain Injury: Who and When to Test

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) was traditionally considered an infrequent cause of hypopituitarism. However recent reports strongly suggest that TBI-mediated pituitary hormones deficiency may well be more frequent than previously thought. As the prevalence of hypopituitarism is not dependent on the severity of the trauma and considering the high number of TBI events in all industrialized countries a screening procedure for detecting hormone deficiencies in all TBI patients is not possible. In the present work a suggestion for screening a subgroup of TBI patients is discussed in order to increase the effectiveness of the whole procedure.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Endocrine Section, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela University, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Monica Lorenzo, Roberto Peino, Ana I Castro, Mary Lage & Felipe F Casanueva

  2. Division of Endocrinology, Belgrade University, Serbia & Montenegro

    Vera Popovic

  3. Department of Physiology, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela University, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Carlos Dieguez

  4. Division of Endocrinology, San Francisco Street SN, PO Box 563, E-15780, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Felipe F Casanueva

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Lorenzo, M., Peino, R., Castro, A.I. et al. Hypopituitarism and Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adult Subjects after Traumatic Brain Injury: Who and When to Test. Pituitary 8, 233–237 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11102-006-6046-0

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