Hypopituitarism is a rare disorder in which your pituitary gland fails to produce one or more hormones, or doesn’t produce enough hormones.
More books are on the way. A new book on Hypopituitarism is scheduled to be published in January 2025, and a book on prolactinomas and Pituitary Tumors is slated for late winter and spring 2025, respectively.
From Lewis S. Blevins, Jr. MD – I define hypopituitarism as the partial or complete deficiency of one or more anterior pituitary hormones. Panhypopituitarism is, of course, deficiency of all of the anterior pituitary
From Lewis S Blevins, Jr. MD – All too often, I see patients who come to the clinic with devastating recurrences of their pituitary tumors. For example, the accompanying MRI depicts a recurrent pituitary tumor in
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
From Dr. Lewis Blevins. Central Hypothyroidism due to pituitary or hypothalamic disease: Central hypothyroidism is a condition where the thyroid gland does not function very well because of lack of stimulation by the pituitary gland.