Hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction in critically ill patients with traumatic and nontraumatic brain injury

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1020-1028

  Dimopoulou, Ioanna ^a,b   Tsagarakis, Stylianos ^a  

^a National and Kapodistrian University of Athens ^*  (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Critical illness; Endocrine alterations; Outcome; Recovery; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DESMOPRESSIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OPIATE; PROLACTIN; SEDATIVE AGENT; STEROID; THYROID HORMONE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; ADRENAL CORTEX INSUFFICIENCY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; INCIDENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PROGNOSIS; REHABILITATION; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; STRESS; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

BRAIN INJURIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; HYPOTHALAMUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY GLAND;

EID: 23744502648     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-005-2689-y     Document Type: Review

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