Educational videos featured by Pituitary World News
This captivating conversation analyzes how patients can perceive acromegaly symptoms and quality of life differently than their physicians. It offers an intimate look at how endocrine fellows train on pituitary disorders and their confidence in managing these conditions post-fellowship. Importantly, the discussion also identifies the gaps in acromegaly care, exploring whether these are potentially linked to gaps in physician training or other factors.
If you don’t think it is essential to let someone know that you suspect they may have a pituitary condition, then please watch this video. The video in this article is an amazing acromegaly diagnosis
We continue to periodically publish videos of pituitary MRI’s with discussions on the images in an effort to make people more familiar with these studies, help in the understanding of these images, what you see, and
Reading Pituitary MRI’s from Lewis S Blevins Jr., M.D. – Accurate interpretation and use of MRI images of the pituitary in patients with pituitary disorders are skills that require decades of medical practice to develop
From Sandra Mesri, president of Apehi, (The Argentine Asociation for Patients Affected by a Pituitary Disorder) comes a new promotional video. Sandra tells us their objective is to get the word out with relevant images
There is quite a bit of noise out there about Gene Therapy. What it is, how it works, what can it actually do? Some of the information is very good, some, not so good.
From our friends at the Pacific Neuroscience Institute, a captivating discussion by Dr. Daniel F. Kelly, neurosurgeon, director, and founder at Pacific Neuroscience Institute.
From our friends at the Pacific Neuroscience Institute. If you were unable to attend this meeting, here’s a video of the recent Pituitary Patient Support Group meeting presentations. The two very interesting and relevant subjects
Patient advocates and PWN panel Q & A session: Santino Santino Matrundola, Dan Jeffries and JD Faccinetti answer questions from the floor about living with acromegaly, advocacy, memoir writing and more. The Canadian National Acromegaly patient
This presentation by the PNA webinar series offers an excellent soup-to-nuts acromegaly summary by Dr. Adriana G. Ioachimescu, MD, PhD., FACE Associate Professor of Medicine and Neurosurgery Co-Director, The Emory Pituitary Center Emory University School of
From University of Rochester Medical Center this fascinating, very educational program on the diagnosis of a Cushing’s case. Thank you, Ruth Owens, for posting this informational piece on the Acromegaly Community Support Group Facebook page.
From Jorge D Faccinetti, cofounder – People with pituitary conditions, particularly those who suffered a long time before they received a correct diagnosis, often deal with a multitude of debilitating symptoms and related conditions. For all people,
Philip Theodosopoulos, M.D., Professor and Vice-Chair of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco is the Director of the Skull Base Tumor Program and has extensive experience performing endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary surgery for