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ea0070aep766 | Pituitary and Neuroendocrinology | ECE2020

Severe heart failure in a young male patient with unrecognized hypopituitarism consequent to hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and undiagnosed hemochromatosis

Caric Bojana , Stojanović Marko , Kos Ljiljana , Grbić Aleksandra , Đekić Danijel , Malešević Gabrijela , Miljić Dragana

Background: The partial or complete hypopituitarism is described as late complication of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). Imaging methods of pituitary gland examination in the chronic phase showed pituitary atrophy, but a precise pathogenic mechanism that causes pituitary damage in HRFS remains unclear. While hypopituitarism in HFRS is rarely described, cardiac failure as a known complication of hypopituitarism is even more rarely described. We present a case of s...