Endocrine Abstracts

The results of recent studies indicate that traumatic brain injury (TBI) and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) must be considered as frequent causes of long-term disturbances of hypothalamo-pituitary function. Indeed, partial hypopituitarism has been established with a pooled frequency of 33% in TBI and of 48% in SAH survivors. Nevertheless, still little is known about risk factors and clinical characteristics of pituitary impairment after these two types of brain damag...