Endocrine Abstracts

Pituitary apoplexy (PA) is a rare but life-threatening medical emergency. Common predisposing factors include closed head trauma, blood pressure alterations, history of pituitary irradiation, cardiac surgery, anticoagulation, treatment with dopamine agonists, pituitary stimulation testing, and pregnancy. Hantaviruses belonging to the Bunyaviridae family are a group of rodent- or insectivore-borne single-strand ribonucleic acid (RNA) viruses. In humans, hantaviruses can cause h...