Your pituitary is a small gland at the base of your brain. Pituitary disorders develop because of problems with your pituitary gland. A growth (tumor) in or near the pituitary often causes these ...

Hormonal dysregulation and gut microbiota alterations as potential contributors to cognitive dysfunction CHINA, March ...

Pituitary tumours are common and cause unrestrained hormone secretion or compression of intracranial structures. Treatment aims to suppress hormone hypersecretion, ablate tumours or prevent their ...

Located at the base of the brain, nestled within the skull, lies a bean-shaped endocrine gland called the pituitary. It’s as small as a pea and just about as light – weighing only half a gram. But ...

Background A 61-year-old lady was admitted to hospital with sepsis due to a urinary tract infection. Three days after admission, she suddenly started to have severe headache with visual disturbance ...

Yes, you can live without a pituitary gland. You’ll need to take hormone replacement medications for the rest of your life to make up for the hormones the pituitary usually makes. Your pituitary gland ...

Changes clinical practice: Adults who received cranial radiotherapy for nonpituitary tumors should have their hypothalamic-pituitary axis periodically evaluated. This is the first meta-analysis of ...

A team of researchers at the IRCM, supervised by Dr. Jacques Drouin, reprogrammed the identity of cells in the pituitary gland and identified critical mechanisms of epigenetic cell programming. This ...

Conditions that affect the pituitary gland include acromegaly and gigantism, Cushing and empty sella syndromes, prolactinoma, and more. Noncancerous tumors most often cause conditions that affect your ...

In a new study published in Cell Reports, Finnish researchers show that pituitary macrophages, the immune cells located in the pituitary gland, help regulate hormonal balance. It is possible that in ...

Pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (PitNETs) are commonly associated with visual disturbances and endocrine abnormalities; however, many patients also experience cognitive deficits, particularly in ...

Known as the master gland, the pituitary gland is behind the bridge of the nose. Medically reviewed by Isabel Casimiro, MD, PhD The pituitary gland, known as the master gland, helps regulate most of ...