Pregunta:
What is Sheehan's syndrome?
Autor: H KRespuesta:
Post partum pituitary infarction, increase estrogen stimulation enlarges the pituitary, hypervascular gland leading to vulnerability to arterial pressure change and prone to hemorrhage, hypovolemic shock causing necrosis and fast onset hypopituitarism Signs are inability to nurse and postpartum amenorrhea May be caused by autoimmunity
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