Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hundred years ago Harvey Cushing attempt first human pituitary transplantation. This operation, in different modifications, was performed in the next 50 years, but now is used rather only in animal experiment. The problem of effective therapy of hypopituitarism, other that substitution, is however still open. That encouraged us to present a patient 50 years after pituitary xenotransplantation.Case: A 75-year-old woman was admitted to hospit...