A 42-year-old woman was admitted for further investigation of deficiency of growth hormone and gonadotropin first documented in 1969. On admission, the patient was mildly obese and of short stature (48 kg for 134 em). There was no evidence of facial or palatal abnormality, fundoscopy was normal , and both visual fields and sense of smell were intact. Clinical examination also was normal. The fo...

Sheehan syndrome is the clinical manifestation that results due to necrosis of pituitary gland resulting from severe postpartum haemorrhage during pregnancy and one causes empty sella, complete absence gland. Partial sella term given when part visible on imaging. The hormonal deficiencies syndromes are thus respectively named as complete/empty partial syndrome. Incidence especially extremely ra...

Central diabetes insipidus (CDI) is characterized clinically by the presence of polyuria with the subsequent development of volume depletion and hypernatremia. In patients with dialysisdependent end-stage renal disease (ESRD), neither of these findings can be expressed due to the absence of renal function. A 59-year-old woman with anuric ESRD of unknown etiology had been on peritoneal dialysis ...

OBJECTIVE It was previously observed that infusion of angiotensin II, hypertonic saline and N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) causes an increase in vasopressin and cardiodepressant factor release from the posterior pituitary lobe into the blood (Goraca 1998). The aim of present study was to investigate if the cardiodepressant factor and vasopressin are simultaneously released from the pituitary i...

Sella turcica is a saddle shaped depression in the sphenoid bone. It received its name from its resemblance to the Turkish saddle. The seat of the saddle is known as pituitary fossa or hypophyseal fossa. The pituitary gland or hypophysis cerebri is situated in the hypophyseal fossa. It is limited anteriorly, posteriorly and inferiorly by bony constituents of the sella turcica the tuberculum sel...

Recent studies have questioned the value of hypocycloidal poly tomography of the sella turcica for the diagnosis of pituitary microadenomas because of the substantial number of false-positive and false-negative diagnoses [1, 2]. With the improving image quality available with state-of-the-art computed tomographic (CT) scanners, high-resolution CT appears at least as sensitive as poly tomography...