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The patient’s voice in Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency treatment

July 17, 2020
Growth Hormone Deficiency|

Podcast:  The importance of having patients participate in the design of their treatment is the focus of this podcast by Dr. Kevin Yuen, Director of the Barrows Neurological Insitute and PWN contributor. Dr. Yuen explains

Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency: a talk with Dr. Kevin Yuen

May 9, 2019
Growth Hormone Deficiency|Patients' Corner|Podcasts|
Pituitary World News co-founder Dr. Lewis Blevins talks to Dr. Kevin Yuen, a leading neuroendocrinologist and medical director of the Barrow Pituitary Center and Barrow Neuroendocrinology Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona.  Dr. Yuen was instrumental in

Macrilen: a new growth hormone stimulation test

September 8, 2018
Growth Hormone Deficiency|Patients' Corner|Podcasts|

This podcast by Dr. Lewis Blevins offers a comprehensive review of growth hormone, GH deficiency, diagnostic testing, a statistics discussion on the strength and accuracy of a diagnostic test and an in-depth explanation of Macrilen an

Growth Hormone Deficiency: Thoughts on medical decision making

April 17, 2018
Growth Hormone Deficiency|Podcasts|

In this podcast, Dr. Blevins discusses growth hormone replacement, growth hormone deficiency tests, and some of the implications that affect medical decision making.     Music by Patrick Mueke – non-commercial licence

Growth Hormone Secreting Pituitary Adenomas

November 20, 2017
Dr. Blevins Corner|Growth Hormone Deficiency|Podcasts|

A highly informative podcast on growth hormone-secreting adenomas by Dr. Lewis Blevins.  This is the third of a series on pituitary tumors.  

Growth Hormone: a candid doctor patient perspective

January 13, 2016
Growth Hormone Deficiency|News Feed|Podcasts|

This fascinating podcast by Dr Lewis Blevins and Jorge Faccinetti goes from discussing athletes taking too much growth hormone, to patients taking to much Growth Hormone, to normal people, perhaps looking for eternal youth and

The benefits of growth hormone replacement

August 12, 2015
Growth Hormone Deficiency|Podcasts|

Our third podcast in this Growth Hormone replacement series of four covers the benefits you might expect from treatment.  Dr. Blevins also explains his views on the risks involved and touches on the risk/benefit issues related to

Symptoms and signs of growth hormone deficiency

August 11, 2015
Growth Hormone Deficiency|Podcasts|

In this second podcast on GH deficiency, Dr. Blevins explains the clinical symptoms and signs of this disorder.       “Abstracts (2) (Imagicity 1096)” by Graham Crumb/Imagicity.com. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia

Diagnosis of growth hormone deficiency

August 10, 2015
Growth Hormone Deficiency|Podcasts|

In this first of a series on Growth Hormone deficiency, Dr Lewis Blevins focuses on definition, diagnosis, and setting the stage for future podcasts on GH Deficiency.  The series will cover the clinical characteristics of

Excess mortality associated with hypopituitarism in adults

April 27, 2015
Growth Hormone Deficiency|Hypopituitarism|Podcasts|
Podcast – In this informational podcast, Dr. Lewis Blevins describes the findings of a meta-analysis from observational studies done in the UK.  Patients with hypopituitarism have an increased mortality rate mostly related to cardiovascular disorders. These

Growth Hormone Deficiency

September 28, 2014
Growth Hormone Deficiency|Hypopituitarism|News Feed|

From Lewis Blevins, MD  Introduction Growth Hormone is a peptide hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland. Growth hormone-releasing hormone from the hypothalamus stimulates it’s release while somatostatin from the hypothalamus inhibits GH. Somatostatin is

Tests of Pituitary Function: GH Deficiency

September 11, 2014
Dr. Blevins Corner|Growth Hormone Deficiency|

  From Dr. Lewis Blevins.  Growth Hormone levels, by themselves, are not a good indicator of GH sufficiency. Levels are undetectable 50% of the time during the day in normal persons. Thus, when a diagnosis

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