News and information about other pituitary disorders.
During these trying times, work continues, even at a faster pace, for new drugs and therapies for pituitary patients. From the J D Faccinetti, co-founder – We recently caught up with Crinetics Pharmaceuticals chairman Dr.
Today’s podcast brings together Dr. Phillip Thedosopoulos, Professor and Vice Chairman of Neurological Surgery at the University of California San Francisco and Director of the skull based tumor program at UCSF; and Dr. Lewis Blevins,
From Lewis S. Blevins Jr. M.D. – Pituitary World News co-founder and Director of the Center for Pituitary Disorders at UCSF. – I had the pleasure of seeing a very interesting patient recently who was referred
A conversation with Dr. Scott Struthers, Founder, and CEO of Crinetics Pharmaceutical. These are exciting times in the world of endocrine drug discovery and development, particularly for Acromegaly and Cushing’s patients. In today’s podcast we
Dr. Lewis Blevins reviews non-functioning pituitary adenomas. These tumors, which typically do not secrete hormones, can pose major challenges due to their ability to grow large and cause mass effects such a vision issues and headaches,
Today’s podcast is the first in an upcoming series of podcasts dedicated to pituitary lesions, with particular attention to pituitary adenomas. Dr. Blevins covers a variety of subjects including symptoms and signs, classification and groups,
In this podcast Dr. Blevins discusses aggressive pituitary tumors. Learn what defines a pituitary malignancy and the differences between benign and malignant tumors. What is an aggressive tumor and what makes it behave that way.
A recent article from the Endocrinology Department of “Escola Universitària d’Infermeria, Hospital Sant Pau, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain” explores health related quality of life (QoL) issues in patients with pituitary disease. The article
From Lewis Blevins, MD – Pituitary embryology is fascinating. An extension goes down from the brain forming the pituitary stalk and the posterior pituitary. A flat piece of tissue grows up from the upper portions
From Lewis Blevins, MD – Pineal cysts are seen in about 2% of all MRI’s of the brain. I see them as perhaps more common in pituitary patients simply because I look at the scans
From Lewis Blevins, MD – Empty sella syndrome as a misnomer for the sella is not empty. It is usually filled with spinal fluid. Furthermore, a true syndrome does not exist. An empty sella