Electrolyte Imbalance after Operation for Pituitary Tumour

Second brain tumour after treatment for pituitary adenoma.

The Renal Lesions of Electrolyte Imbalance

Potassium depletion in rats augments the specific renal lesions of phosphate loading. Since it has been shown that phosphate loading increases the specific cardiac lesions of potassium deficiency (12), it is concluded that the similar types of electrolyte imbalance (potassium depletion-phosphate load) act conversely in the two organs.

Electrolyte imbalance in vitamin B6-deficient rats.

The importance of vitamin Bs in water metabolism has been studied extensively. Stebbins (1) demonstrated an impaired water metabolism in animals deprived of vitamin Be. Lepkovsky and colleagues (2) suggested that derangement of water metabolism may be involved in the occurrence of fits in vitamin B&-deficient rats. Guggenheim (3) observed that rats in a state of vitamin Be deficiency show a del...

Electrolyte Imbalance in Patients with Sheehan's Syndrome

BACKGROUND We investigated the prevalence of electrolyte imbalance and the relationship between serum electrolyte and anterior pituitary hormone levels in patients with Sheehan's syndrome. METHODS In a retrospective study, we investigated 78 patients with Sheehan's syndrome. We also included 95 normal control subjects who underwent a combined anterior pituitary hormone stimulation test and sh...

Pituitary tumour pathogenesis.

Pituitary adenomas are the most common tumours in the central nervous system, make up approximately 10% of all primary intracerebral tumours [1] and are found incidentally in 3-27% of autopsies [2]. The predisposition to tumour formation of the highly specialized cellular phenotypes that characterize the anterior pituitary is unexplained, but it is tempting to speculate that the same hormones, ...