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Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury
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Recent data suggest that anterior pituitary dysfunction after traumatic brain injury (TBI) is common. We sought to confirm the results of earlier studies in a larger cohort of patients with dynamic testing of pituitary function. We studied 102 consecutive TBI survivors (85 males; median age 28, range 15-65 yr) who had survived severe or moderate TBI (initial Glasgow Coma Scale score 3-13) at a median of 17 months (range 6-36) post event. GH and ACTH reserves were initially assessed using the glucagon stimulation test (GST). Normative data on GH and cortisol responses to the GST were obtained from 31 matched healthy controls. Patients with subnormal GH or cortisol responses were further evaluated, using the insulin tolerance test (ITT) or arginine + GHRH test for GH assessment and the ITT or 250-microg short synacthen test for the assessment of ACTH reserve. Patients were considered to be GH or ACTH deficient if they failed both the GST and the second provocative test. Baseline thyroid function, prolactin, IGF-I, gonadotropins, testosterone, or estradiol was performed in all patients and compared with local reference ranges.In controls, normal response to the GST was a stimulated GH peak of greater than 5 microg/liter and cortisol peak greater than 450 nmol/liter (16 microg/dl). Eighteen TBI patients (17.6%) had GH response to the GST less than 5 microg/liter, 11 of whom also failed the ITT or the arginine + GHRH tests. GH-deficient patients had significantly higher body mass index (P = 0.003), and lower IGF-I concentrations (P < 0.001), than GH-sufficient patients. Twenty-three patients (22.5%) had cortisol responses to GST less than 450 nmol/liter, 13 of whom also failed the ITT or short synacthen test. GH or ACTH deficiencies were not related to age, Glasgow Coma Scale score, or the presence of other pituitary hormone abnormalities (P > 0.05). Twelve patients (11.8%) had gonadotropin and one (1%) had thyrotrophin deficiencies. Twelve patients (11.8%) had hyperprolactinemia. Twenty-nine patients (28.4%) had at least one anterior pituitary hormone deficiency. This is the largest study, to date, of hypopituitarism after TBI and confirms a high prevalence of undiagnosed anterior pituitary hormone abnormalities in survivors of TBI. Hypopituitarism is a treatable cause of morbidity after TBI. In addition to conventional pituitary hormone replacement, the potential of GH treatment to enhance recovery needs to be examined in a prospective study.
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“However, it is not possible to be certain that the five patients who failed the GST but passed the SST have intact corticotrophic function because of well-reported falsepass results with the latter test (45)(46)(47)(48).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [45] 45. Mukherjee JJ, de Castro JJ, Kaltsas G, Afshar F, Grossman AB, Wass JA, Besser GM 1997 A comparison of the insulin tolerance/glucagon test with the short ACTH test in the assessment of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis in the early post-operative period after hypophysectomy. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 47:51-60 source
- Not matchedcites [46] 46. Thaler LM, Blevins LS 1998 The low dose (1-g) adrenocorticotropin stim- ulation test in the evaluation of patients with suspected central adrenal in- sufficiency. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 83:2726 -2729
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- Could not verifycites [47] 47. Harman SM, Metter EJ, Tobin JD, Pearson J, Blackman MR 2001 Longitu- dinal effects of aging on serum total and free testosterone levels in healthy men. Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 86:724 -731 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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“Twelve patients (11.8%, 10 males) had gonadotropin deficiency, which was associated with hyperprolactinemia in four patients (three males).”
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“Twelve patients (11.8%) had gonadotropin and one (1%) had thyrotrophin deficiencies.”
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“Diagnosing ACTH deficiency by failure of two provocative tests, 13 patients (12.7%) were defined as ACTH deficient.”
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“13 of whom also failed the ITT or short synacthen test.”
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“TSH deficiency was present in one patient, who had panhypopituitarism (Fig. 2).”
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“one (1%) had thyrotrophin deficiencies.”
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“Hyperprolactinemia was present in 12 patients (one patient was on risperidone).”
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“Twelve patients (11.8%) had hyperprolactinemia.”
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“Defining GH deficiency as failing two different stimulation tests, 11 patients (10.7%) had GH deficiency including eight (7.8%) with severe deficiency.”
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“11 of whom also failed the ITT or the arginine ؉ GHRH tests.”
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“Four of the 12 patients with gonadotropin deficiency had hyperprolactinemia, which may have been responsible for this abnormality.”
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“There was no difference in the AGHDA scores between GH-deficient and -sufficient subjects”
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“Our data show that in a large, unselected population of survivors of moderate or severe TBI who are studied well after the initial trauma, there is a significant prevalence of undiagnosed hypopituitarism.”
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“GH-deficient patients had lower serum IGF-I concentrations than GH-sufficient patients (P Ͻ 0.001).”
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“lower IGF-I concentrations (P < 0.001), than GH-sufficient patients.”
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“Only four of the 13 ACTH-deficient patients had morning serum cortisol less than 200 nmol/liter (7 g/dl)”
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“Multifactorial logistic regression analysis showed that gonadotropin deficiency to be associated with older age (P ϭ 0.006)”
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“Patients with gonadotropin deficiency were more likely to be older, although their ages ranged from 18 to 64 yr.”
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“However, the relationship between hyperprolactinemia and gonadotropin deficiency was not statistically significant.”
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“We did not observe an association between the presence of hormone abnormalities and the severity of the head injury, as measured by the either the GCS score or CT scan appearance.”
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“TSH deficiency was uncommon in this study.”
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“Multifactorial logistic regression analysis showed ACTH deficiency to be associated with lower basal serum cortisol concentration (P Ͻ 0.001)”
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“Hyperprolactinemia occurred in 12% of our patients.”
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“The 10 patients who failed both the GST and ITT were clearly ACTH deficient.”
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“Even if we had used the lower cut-off of 4.1 g/liter, only one patient would be reclassified as having normal GH reserve.”
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“Using these criteria would have identified 16.6% of our cohort as being ACTH deficient.”
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“GH-deficient patients had significantly higher body mass index (P ؍ 0.003)”
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“Multifactorial logistic regression analysis showed GH deficiency to be associated with higher BMI (P ϭ 0.009)”
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“We found similar rates of hyperprolactinemia to those reported by Lieberman et al.”
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“The discordance between the GST and ITT results in five of the 15 patients who failed the GST can be explained by the well-recognized false-fail results associated with the GST.”
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“Separating the effect of age from the effect of TBI is not possible from this study.”
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“We have confirmed in the largest series to date the gathering evidence that undiagnosed pituitary hormone dysfunction is common post TBI.”
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“Indeed, the mean BMI in our GH-deficient group was similar to that reported for a large cohort of GH-deficient patients (42).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [42] 42. Agha A, Liew A, Finucane F, Baker L, O'Kelly P, Tormey W, Thompson CJ 2004 Conventional glucocorticoid replacement overtreats adult hypopituitary patients with partial ACTH deficiency. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 65:688 -693 source
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“indicating that the majority had partial ACTH deficiency.”
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“In addition to these effects, which have direct consequences for post-TBI patients, GH deficiency has been associated with adverse metabolic changes that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and possibly overall mortality (58).”
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“The prevalence of GHD in our series is slightly lower than that reported by Kelly et al. (7)”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Kelly et al. (7) 7. Kelly DF, Gonzalo ITW, Cohan P, Berman N, Swerdloff R, Wang C 2000 Hypopituitarism following traumatic brain injury and aneurysmal subarach- noid hemorrhage: a preliminary report. J Neurosurg 93:743-752 source
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“It has been suggested that raising the cut-off for the diagnosis of ACTH deficiency, by the SST, from 500 to 600 nmol/liter increases the sensitivity of the test to 90% (28), in which case seven of the eight patients will have failed both the GST and SST.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [28] 28. Gleeson HK, Walker BR, Seckl JR, Padfield PL 2003 Ten years on: safety of short synacthen tests in assessing adrenocorticotropin deficiency in clinical practice. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 88:2106 -2111 source
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“Notwithstanding these important questions, there seems little doubt that traumatic brain injury is a common cause of undiagnosed hypopituitarism.”
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“Our results are comparable with those of Kelly et al. (7), who found only one patient (4.5%) with low T 4 and TSH levels, who also showed a blunted response to TRH stimulation.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [7] 7. Kelly DF, Gonzalo ITW, Cohan P, Berman N, Swerdloff R, Wang C 2000 Hypopituitarism following traumatic brain injury and aneurysmal subarach- noid hemorrhage: a preliminary report. J Neurosurg 93:743-752 source
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“Although our patient sample was representative of survivors of TBI admitted to our unit, only a small number of our patients had long-term severe disability.”
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“Our data contrast with the results of Lieberman et al. (8), who reported that 45.7% of TBI patients tested had a morning cortisol of less than 7 g/dl (193 nmol/liter), although only 7.1% failed the SST.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [8] 8. Lieberman SA, Oberoi AL, Gilkinson CR, Masel BE, Urban RJ 2001 Prev- alence of neuroendocrine dysfunction in patients recovering from traumatic brain injury. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 86:2752-2756 source
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“An association between the severity of TBI and pituitary dysfunction cannot be completely ruled out because patients with more severe TBI may have died early after the event or may been left with severe disabilities that precluded participation in the study.”
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“which is likely to reflect other influences on QoL scores, such as severity of head injury, stage of rehabilitation, and the presence of other hormone defects.”
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“Hypothalamic and pituitary stalk lesions have been reported at autopsy in patients who died after TBI (6), and lesions in either area could be responsible for the significant proportion of patients with hyperprolactinemia.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [6] 6. Benvenga S, Campenni A, Ruggeri RM, Trimarchi F 2000 Hypopituitarism secondary to head trauma. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 85:1353-1361 source
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“Twenty-nine patients (28.4%) had at least one anterior pituitary hormone deficiency.”
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“Twenty-three patients (22.5%) had isolated hormone deficiencies and six (5.9%) has mul- tiple hormone deficiencies.”
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“Multifactorial logistic regression analysis showed that hyperprolactinemia was not associated with age, GCS score, cerebral edema, or operative mass evacuation (P Ͼ 0.05 for each variable).”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Other hormone abnormalities
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“The TBI patients in this study who had subnormal GH responses to the GST did show biochemical and somatic features of GHD, in that they also had lower serum IGF-I levels and higher BMI than those with normal GH responses.”
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“Fifty-seven patients (55.9%) had recovered well after TBI (GOS score ϭ 5), 33 patients (32.3%) had moderate disability (GOS score ϭ 4), and 12 patients (11.8%) had severe disability (GOS score ϭ 3).”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Results
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“but was unrelated to hyperprolactinemia (P ϭ 0.786), gender (P ϭ 0.375), BMI (P ϭ 0.728), GCS scores (P ϭ 0.561), CT scan appearance (P ϭ 0.064), cerebral edema (P ϭ 0.896), or mass evacuation (P ϭ 0.357).”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Other hormone abnormalities
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“Seven of the 18 patients who failed the GST passed either the ITT or arginine ϩ GHRH, showing some discordance between these provocative tests of GH secretion.”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Discussion
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“GH deficiency to be associated with higher BMI (P ϭ 0.009) but unrelated to age (P ϭ 0.524), gender (P ϭ 0.225), GCS scores (P ϭ 0.314), CT scan appearance (P ϭ 0.589), cerebral edema (P ϭ 0.710), operative mass evacuation (P ϭ 0.579), the presence of gonadotropin (P ϭ 0.494) or ACTH (P ϭ 0.422) deficiencies, or hyperprolactinemia (P ϭ 0.752).”
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“ACTH deficiency was not significantly related to age (P ϭ 0.916), gender (P ϭ 0.952), BMI (P ϭ 0.170), GCS score (P ϭ 0.798), CT scan appearance (P ϭ 0.670), cerebral edema (P ϭ 0.543), operative mass evacuation (P ϭ 0.558), or gonadotropin deficiency (P ϭ 0.129); the association with hyperprolactinemia was of borderline nonsignificance (P ϭ 0.058).”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > The corticotrophic-adrenal axis
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“Completed studies were performed in all patients.No serious adverse reactions to any of the tests were observed.”
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“Because the thyrotrophs are located more medially within the adenohypophysis in the protected territory of the short hypophyseal vessels (7, 52), they may be less susceptible to traumatic injury than the rest of the anterior lobe, which receives its blood supply predominantly from the more vulnerable long hypophyseal vessels (7).”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [7] 7. Kelly DF, Gonzalo ITW, Cohan P, Berman N, Swerdloff R, Wang C 2000 Hypopituitarism following traumatic brain injury and aneurysmal subarach- noid hemorrhage: a preliminary report. J Neurosurg 93:743-752 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [52] 52. Cuneo RC, Salomon F, Wiles CM, Hesp R, Sonksen PH 1991 Growth hor- mone treatment in growth hormone deficient adults II: effect on exercise performance. J Appl Physiol 70:695-700 source
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“our data are broadly in agreement with earlier, smaller studies.”
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“GH deficiency is associated with reduced lean body mass (53), decreased exercise capacity (54), impaired cardiac function (55), and reduction in bone mineral density (56), which may be of particular significance in immobilized patients, as well as sleep disturbances, social isolation, reduced physical mobility, and general well-being (57).”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [53] 53. Merola B, Cittadini A, Colao A, Longobardi S, Fazio S, Sabatini D, Sacca L, Lombardi G 1993 Cardiac structure and functional abnormalities in adult patients with growth hormone deficiency. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 77:1658 - 1661 source
- Not matchedcites [54] 54. Colao A, Di Somma C, Pivonello R, Loche S, Aimaretti G, Cerbone G, Faggiano A, Corneli G, Ghigo E, Lombardi G 1999 Bone loss is correlated to the severity of growth hormone deficiency in adult patients with hypopitu- itarism. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 84:1919 -1924
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [55] 55. Bjork S, Jonsson B, Westphal O, Levin J-E 1989 Quality of life of adults with growth hormone deficiency: a controlled study. Acta Paediatr Scand 356(Suppl):55-59 source
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“All these effects can have the potential to impair recovery and rehabilitation and may contribute to the significant morbidity associated with TBI.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Testosterone deficiency in males leads to reduced lean body mass and reduced bone mineral density; estrogen deficiency in females predisposes them to premature osteoporosis.
- Rests on an assumption: Deficiency in thyroid hormones leads to anergia, muscle weakness, and neuropsychiatric disorders.
- Rests on an assumption: Glucocorticoid deficiency can be life threatening, particularly in acutely ill patients, and may impair recovery and rehabilitation in the post-TBI period due to lethargy, muscle fatigue, and poor exercise capacity.
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“Four of the 12 patients with gonadotropin deficiency had hyperprolactinemia, which may have been responsible for this abnormality.”
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“We would defend our data on the basis of the larger size of our cohort, the use of two separate dynamic tests of glucocorticoid secretion, and our rigorous definition for ACTH deficiency.”
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“Pituitary insufficiency may have serious consequences and may aggravate the physical and neuropsychiatric morbidity observed after head injury.”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Discussion
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- Rests on an assumption: Testosterone deficiency in males leads to reduced lean body mass and reduced bone mineral density; estrogen deficiency in females predisposes them to premature osteoporosis.
- Rests on an assumption: Deficiency in thyroid hormones leads to anergia, muscle weakness, and neuropsychiatric disorders.
- Rests on an assumption: Glucocorticoid deficiency can be life threatening, particularly in acutely ill patients, and may impair recovery and rehabilitation in the post-TBI period due to lethargy, muscle fatigue, and poor exercise capacity.
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“Our results also contrast with those of Kelly et al. (7), who found only one patient with blunted cortisol response to hypoglycemia, although in this last study, the 95% confidence limit for the area under the curve for cortisol responses was used to define normality, rather than the more conventional peak cortisol response.”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [7] 7. Kelly DF, Gonzalo ITW, Cohan P, Berman N, Swerdloff R, Wang C 2000 Hypopituitarism following traumatic brain injury and aneurysmal subarach- noid hemorrhage: a preliminary report. J Neurosurg 93:743-752 source
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“It is well recognized that serum testosterone levels decline with age (49).”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [49] 49. Littley MD, Shalet SM, Beardwell CG, Ahmed SR, Applegate G, Sutton ML 1989 Hypopituitarism following external radiotherapy for pituitary tumours in adults. Q J Med 70:145-160 source
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“We did not use the GnRH test for the assessment of gonadotrophic function because this test lacks both sensitivity and specificity and rarely adds any helpful additional information (35,36).”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [35] 35. Rahim A, Toogood A, Shalet SM 1996 The assessment of growth hormone status in normal young adult males using a variety of provocative agents. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 45:557-562 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [36] 36. Pfeifer M, Kanc K, Verhovec R, Kocijancic A 2001 Reproducibility of the insulin tolerance test (ITT) for assessment of growth hormone and cortisol secretion in normal and hypopituitary adult men. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 54: 17-22 source
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“The frequency of TSH deficiency with relation to other anterior pituitary hormone abnormalities, in pituitary disorders, is variable (50,51).”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Discussion
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- Not matchedcites [50] 50. Asa S, Kovacs K, Melmed S 2002 Functional anatomy of the hypothalamic pituitary axis. In: Melmed S, ed. The pituitary. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Black- well Science; 4 -44
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [51] 51. Binnerts A, Deurenberg P, Swart GR, Wilson JHP, Lamberts SWJ 1992 Body composition in growth hormone deficient adults. Am J Clin Nutr 55:918 -923 source
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“Because hypopituitarism may impair recovery from TBI and because the benefit of replacement of hormone deficiencies is well established, identification of post-TBI hypopituitarism offers the potential to improve the chances of rehabilitation and enhance QoL.”
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“Our results are more comparable with those of Lieberman et al. (8)”
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- Not matchedcites Lieberman et al. (8) 8. Lieberman SA, Oberoi AL, Gilkinson CR, Masel BE, Urban RJ 2001 Prev- alence of neuroendocrine dysfunction in patients recovering from traumatic brain injury. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 86:2752-2756
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“It is important to acknowledge that most patients with pituitary disease who pass the standard 250-g SST do well without glucocorticoid replacement (29).”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [29] 29. Trainer PJ, Besser GM 1995 Barts endocrine protocols. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone International; 6 -8
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Anterior pituitary dysfunction after traumatic brain injury is common.
“Recent data suggest that anterior pituitary dysfunction after traumatic brain injury (TBI) is common.”
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Normal GH and cortisol responses to the glucagon stimulation test are not well established.
“Because normal GH and cortisol responses to the GST are not well established, we performed the GST in 31 healthy subjects (22 males) who were matched for age, sex, and body mass index (BMI) to the patient population.”
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This is the largest study to date of hypopituitarism after TBI.
“This is the largest study, to date, of hypopituitarism after TBI and confirms a high prevalence of undiagnosed anterior pituitary hormone abnormalities in survivors of TBI.”
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Hypopituitarism is a treatable cause of morbidity after TBI.
“Hypopituitarism is a treatable cause of morbidity after TBI.”
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Under stressed conditions, such as intercurrent illness, mild untreated ACTH deficiency may become life threatening.
“However, under stressed conditions, such as intercurrent illness, mild untreated ACTH deficiency may become life threatening.”
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No study in adults has compared the glucagon stimulation test with the arginine + GHRH test.
“No study, in adults, has compared the GST with the arginine ϩ GHRH test.”
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The three patients without documented GCS scores were assumed to have a GCS of 13 or less because they were admitted to the intensive care unit.
“The three remaining patients had no documented GCS scores but were admitted to the intensive care unit (ITU) and therefore were assumed to have a GCS of 13 or less.”
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The GST has well-recognized false-fail results.
“The discordance between the GST and ITT results in five of the 15 patients who failed the GST can be explained by the well-recognized false-fail results associated with the GST.”
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Testosterone deficiency in males leads to reduced lean body mass and reduced bone mineral density; estrogen deficiency in females predisposes them to premature osteoporosis.
“Testosterone deficiency in males leads to reduced lean body mass and reduced bone mineral density; estrogen deficiency in females predisposes them to premature osteoporosis.”
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Deficiency in thyroid hormones leads to anergia, muscle weakness, and neuropsychiatric disorders.
“Deficiency in thyroid hormones leads to anergia, muscle weakness, and neuropsychiatric disorders.”
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The benefit of replacement of hormone deficiencies is well established.
“Because hypopituitarism may impair recovery from TBI and because the benefit of replacement of hormone deficiencies is well established, identification of post-TBI hypopituitarism offers the potential to improve the chances of rehabilitation and enhance QoL.”
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The study's patient sample was representative of survivors of TBI admitted to the study unit.
“Although our patient sample was representative of survivors of TBI admitted to our unit, only a small number of our patients had long-term severe disability.”
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Glucocorticoid deficiency can be life threatening, particularly in acutely ill patients, and may impair recovery and rehabilitation in the post-TBI period due to lethargy, muscle fatigue, and poor exercise capacity.
“Glucocorticoid deficiency can be life threatening, particularly in acutely ill patients, and may impair recovery and rehabilitation in the post-TBI period due to lethargy, muscle fatigue, and poor exercise capacity.”
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“TBI has previously been considered as a rare cause of hypopituitarism, but an increased prevalence of neuroendocrine dysfunction in patients with TBI has been reported during the last 15 years in most of the retrospective and prospective studies.”
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“The somatotrophs and gonadotrophs, which are located in the area of the pituitary perfused by long hypophyseal portal vessels, are the most frequent hormonal deficiencies after TBI (15, 18, 27, 29, 150, 160); however, in some studies ACTH deficiency (corticotrophs are located in the territory supplied by the short portal vessels) is the most common or second most common hormonal deficiency after”
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“Some of these early abnormalities are transient and recover fully within days or weeks after TBI while new pituitary hormone deficiency may become apparent in the post-acute phase (13, 14).”
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“The most robust data with regard to incidence of PTHP are in those patients with moderate or severe TBI (14).”
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“however, in three studies, confirmatory testing was applied if a screening test was positive (29,30,255; Table 2).”
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“Additionally, most studies did not include a control group.Only three studies included matched control groups (27,29,30; Table 2).”
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“In the TBI population, this test has been used by some authors (18,29,196,197) without adverse effects, but other authors have used alternative tests, suggesting the possible danger of ITT (195,198).”
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“In most studies, no significant associations between TBI severity according to postresuscitation GCS and hypopituitarism in the chronic phase have been reported (15, 23, 24, 27, 29, 181, 231-233), whereas others have demonstrated that hypopituitarism was more frequent in patients with more severe TBI (18,30,154).”
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“The data on this is limited with one study demonstrating a correlation between diffuse brain swelling and PTHP (19) and another finding no such association (14).”
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“Chronic anterior hypopituitarism, although reversible in some patients, persists in 25–40% of moderate and severe TBI survivors”
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“Collectively, these studies indicate that by 6–12 months post-injury, 25–40% of moderate and severe TBI patients will develop chronic hypopituitarism”
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“with the somatotroph and gonadotroph axes being most commonly affected [5, 30–43]”
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“New chronic somatotroph failure (growth hormone deficiency) averages 15–18% of patients”
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“followed by hypogonadism with rates averaging 14%”
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“new corticotroph, thyrotroph and posterior pituitary deficiencies (permanent diabetes insipidus) are less common with rates averaging 8%, 5% and 2%, respectively”
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“new corticotroph, thyrotroph and posterior pituitary deficiencies (permanent diabetes insipidus) are less common with rates averaging 8%, 5% and 2%, respectively”
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“new corticotroph, thyrotroph and posterior pituitary deficiencies (permanent diabetes insipidus) are less common with rates averaging 8%, 5% and 2%, respectively”
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“Most prior studies have failed to show a definitive relationship between injury-related factors and the development of hypopituitarism [32, 39–41, 44, 45, 70–72].”
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§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > GH-IGF-I axis
“Eighteen patients (17.6%) had a GH response to glucagon less than 5 g/liter, including 13 (12.7%)with a response less than 3 g/liter”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Discussion
“| 12/M | 23.7 | 26 | 3.16 | 5.4 | Ϫ0.87 | | | 13/M | 34.3 | 50 | 3.96 | 10.7 | Ϫ0.74 | ACTH | | 14/M | 33.5 | 51 | 3.18 | 10.4 | 1.11 | ACTH | | 15/M | 21.9 | 45 | 2.98 | 6.3 | 0.77 | | | 16/M | 33.9 | 20 | 3 | 5.8 | Ϫ0.57 | | | 17/M | 22.3 | 22 | 4.15 | 25.5 | 0.53 | | | 18/F | 33.3 | 60 | 3.24 | 24.5 | 1.5 | GT |”
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§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Discussion
“| BMI (kg/m 2 ) a | 28.13 Ϯ 4.8 | 24 Ϯ 3.8 | 0.003 |”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Discussion
“| BMI (kg/m 2 ) a | 24.2 Ϯ 4 | 25.9 Ϯ 4.9 | 0.238 |”
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§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Discussion
“Four of the 12 patients with gonadotropin deficiency had hyperprolactinemia”
§ Anterior Pituitary Dysfunction in Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury > Discussion
“| Hyperprolactinemia (n) | 3 | 9 | 0.148 |”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Agha, A., Rogers, B., Sherlock, M., O’Kelly, P., Tormey, W., Phillips, J., & Thompson, C. J.
- Affiliations
- Beaumont Hospital (IE)
- Corresponding author
- Thompson, Christopher J.
- Venue
- The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Publisher
- The Endocrine Society
- Published
- 2004-10
- Volume
- 89
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 4929-4936
- ISSN
- 0021-972X (ISSN-L)
- 1945-7197
- OpenAlex
- W2077490225
- Semantic Scholar
- b57d05b038775cd07617187bad96eced97cfcfce
- Cited by
- 390
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 17.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Pfizer
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Adrenal Hormones and Disorders
- Keywords
- traumatic brain injury, anterior pituitary dysfunction, growth hormone deficiency, ACTH deficiency, glucagon stimulation test, insulin tolerance test, ACTH stimulation test, insulin-like growth factor I, body mass index, hyperprolactinemia, gonadotropin deficiency, thyrotropin deficiency, pituitary hormone replacement
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adrenocorticotropic Hormone, Adult, Aged, Brain Injuries, Disability Evaluation, Female, Gonadotropins, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Hypopituitarism, Male, Middle Aged, Pituitary Diseases, Thyrotropin, Cohort Studies, Prevalence
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