Endocrine Abstracts

While increasing attention is being paid to the health effects of brain injury, the role that neuroendocrine dysfunction may play in patients’ health after traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains underappreciated. Pituitary deficiencies are seen at a high rate in patients who have sustained TBI, with reports of chronic pituitary dysfunction in 15-60% of adults after TBI, and up to 42% of children and adolescents. Deficiencies may resolve over time, or develop years after inj...