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Pituitary Apoplexy.

Endocr Rev

December 2015

Service d'Endocrinologie et des Maladies de la Reproduction and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance (C.B., S.S., P.C.), Hôpital de Bicêtre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre F94275, France; Service d'Endocrinologie (C.B.), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers, Angers 49000, France; Service d'Endocrinologie (J.-F.B.), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Liège B4000, Belgium; Unité Mixte de Recherche S1185 (P.C.), Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Sud; and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 1185, Faculté de Médecine Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre F94276, France; and Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital (E.R.L.), Boston, Massachusetts 02115.

Pituitary apoplexy, a rare clinical syndrome secondary to abrupt hemorrhage or infarction, complicates 2%-12% of pituitary adenomas, especially nonfunctioning tumors. Headache of sudden and severe onset is the main symptom, sometimes associated with visual disturbances or ocular palsy. Signs of meningeal irritation or altered consciousness may complicate the diagnosis.

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Acromegaly: an endocrine society clinical practice guideline.

J Clin Endocrinol Metab

November 2014

Stanford University School of Medicine (L.K.), Stanford, California 94305; Brigham and Women's Hospital (E.R.L), Boston, Massachusetts 02115; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (S.M.), Los Angeles, California 90048; Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (M.E.M), Chicago, Illinois 60611; Mayo Clinic (M.H.M.), Rochester, Minnesota 55905; Vanderbilt University (A.U.), Nashville, Tennessee 37232; and Oxford Centre Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism (J.A.H.W.), Churchill Hospital, Oxfordshire OX3 7RP, United Kingdom.

Objective: The aim was to formulate clinical practice guidelines for acromegaly.

Participants: The Task Force included a chair selected by the Endocrine Society Clinical Guidelines Subcommittee (CGS), five experts in the field, and a methodologist. The authors received no corporate funding or remuneration.

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