Senthil Rajasekaran, Mark Vanderpump, Stephanie Baldeweg, Will Drake, Narendra Reddy, Marian Lanyon, Andrew Markey, Gordon Plant, Michael Powell, Saurabh Sinha, John Wass
Classical pituitary apoplexy is a medical emergency and rapid replacement with hydrocortisone maybe life saving. It is a clinical syndrome characterized by the sudden onset of headache, vomiting, visual impairment and decreased consciousness caused by haemorrhage and/or infarction of the pituitary gland. It is associated with the sudden onset of headache accompanied or not by neurological symptoms involving the second, third, fourth and sixth cranial nerves. If diagnosed patients should be referred to a multidisciplinary team comprising, amongst others, a neurosurgeon and an endocrinologist...
January 2011: Clinical Endocrinology