Necrosis of the pituitary, secondary to bleeding of the immediate postpartum period or to head trauma. The first classically described symptom is lack of lactogenesis in the post-partum. Failure of production of the other anterior pituitary gland hormones follows. It is possible that many cases are in fact lymphocytic hypophysites .

Anesthetic implications:

substitutive opotherapy

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Updated: February 2017