A five year prospective investigation of anterior pituitary function after traumatic brain injury: Is hypopituitarism long-term after head trauma associated with autoimmunity?

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 30, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 1426-1433

  Tanriverdi, Fatih ^a   De Bellis, Annamaria ^b   Ulutabanca, Halil ^a   Bizzarro, Antonio ^b   Sinisi, Antonio A ^b   Bellastella, Giuseppe ^b   Amoresano Paglionico, Vanda ^b   Dalla Mora, Liliana ^b   Selcuklu, Ahmed ^a   Unluhizarci, Kursad ^a   Casanueva, Felipe F ^c   Kelestimur, Fahrettin ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

anti hypothalamus antibodies; anti pituitary antibodies; autoimmunity; growth hormone; pituitary; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CORTICOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS ANTIBODY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PITUITARY ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS HYPOFUNCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GONADOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; INJURY SEVERITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE DEFICIENCY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROTROPIN DEFICIENCY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881396639     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2012.2752     Document Type: Article

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