NeuroTalk Support Groups - TBI and Endocrine Issues

Wow, a new forum. How wonderful! Thankyou, DocJohn!

There were so many posts all over the forums about PCS and I have been wanting to post this article somewhere... here it is. You'll need a Medscape registration. I'll come back and post how to do that in a sec.

I feel this is a very important article.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/555088_print
[Viewpoint] Should Every Patient With Traumatic Brain Injury Be Referred to an Endocrinologist?
Gianluca Aimaretti; Ezio Ghigo

Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2007;3(4):318-319. ©2007 Nature Publishing Group
Posted 04/13/2007
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Evidence from clinical studies has demonstrated that traumatic brain injury (TBI) is often the cause of hypopituitarism. Indeed, the risk of TBI-related hypopituitarism is much greater than previously suspected.

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In conclusion, although TBI is associated with a high risk of hypopituitarism, it is neither practical nor cost-effective to evaluate pituitary function in all patients after head trauma. Until further data become available, therefore, we currently recommend a case-finding approach to select patients for screening of TBI-related hypopituitarism.

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