Diseases of the endocrine system and metabolic disorders (endocrinology)

Syndrome "Empty Turkish saddle"

The phrase "empty Turkish saddle" (PTS) entered medical practice in 1951. After anatomical work, it was proposed by S. Busch, who studied autopsy material of 788 people who died from diseases not associated with pituitary pathology.

The causes and pathogenesis of panhypopituitarism

Hormonal insufficiency of the hypothalamic-adenohypophysial system develops on the basis of infectious, toxic, vascular (for example, systemic collagen diseases), traumatic, tumor and allergic (autoimmune) lesions of the anterior lobe of the pituitary and / or hypothalamus.

Panhypopituitarism: an overview of information

This concept includes hypothalamic-pituitary insufficiency, postpartum hypopituitarism - Shiena syndrome, pituitary cachexia - Simmonds disease. In 1974, M. Simmonds described postpartum, septic-embolic necrosis of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland with a fatal outcome in the state of severe cachexia and catastrophically developed senile involution of organs and tissues.

Non-diabetes mellitus

Non-diabetes mellitus is a disease characterized by diabetes, an increase in plasma osmolarity, arousing the thirst mechanism, and compensatory consumption of a large amount of fluid.

Syndrome of inadequate production of vasopressin

Excessive production of vasopressin may be adequate, ie, it occurs as a result of the physiological response of the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland in response to appropriate stimuli (blood loss, diuretics, hypovolemia, hypotension, etc.), and inadequate.

Treatment of the syndrome of persistent galactorrhea-amenorrhea

Drug therapy occupies the main place in the treatment of all forms of the syndrome of persistent galactorrhea-amenorrhea of the hypothalamic-pituitary genesis. With adenomas, it is supplemented or competing with neurosurgical intervention or with remote radiation therapy.

Persistent galactorrhea-amenorrhea syndrome: a review of information

The syndrome of persistent galactorrhea-amenorrhea is a characteristic clinical symptom complex that develops in women due to a prolonged increase in the secretion of prolactin. In rare cases, a similar symptom complex develops at a normal serum level of prolactin, which has an excessively high biological activity.

Nelson's syndrome

Nelson's syndrome is a disease characterized by chronic adrenal insufficiency, hyperpigmentation of the skin, mucous membranes and the presence of a pituitary tumor. It occurs after removal of the adrenal glands during the Itenko-Cushing disease.

Treatment of Itenko-Cushing's disease

To treat the disease, pathogenetic and symptomatic methods are used. Pathogenetic methods are aimed at normalization of pituitary-adrenal relationships, symptomatic - to compensate for metabolic disorders.

What provokes Isenko-Cushing's disease?

The cause of the disease is not established. In women, Itenko-Cushing's disease often occurs after childbirth. In the history of patients of both sexes there are head injuries, brain concussion, skull injuries, encephalitis, arachnoiditis and other CNS lesions.

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