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Underactive Pituitary Gland Learning Center
Complications could include:
- Infertility
- Unintentional Weigh...
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Delay in sexual development and puberty
- Growth retardation
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Failure to lactate
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Side effects of drug therapy can develop. In severe illness, failing to take extra corticosteroids can be life-threatening.
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The prognosis for most patients with hypopituitarism is excellent. As long as therapy is continued, many experience normal life spans. However, hypopituitarism is usually a permanent condition and prognosis depends on the primary cause of the diso...
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The prognosis for most patients with hypopituitarism is positive. As long as therapy is continued, many experience normal life spans. However, hypopituitarism is usually a permanent condition, and prognosis depends on the primary cause of the diso...
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Primary infertility describes couples who have never been able to become pregnant after at least 1 year of unprotected sex (intercourse. Secondary infertility describes couples who have been pregnant at least once, but have not been able to become...
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Infertility is the failure to conceive a pregnancy after attempting for at least one full year. In primary infertility, pregnancy has never occurred. In secondary infertility, one or both members of the couple have previously conceived, but are un...
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Infertility is the failure of a couple to conceive a pregnancy after trying to do so for at least one full year. In primary infertility, pregnancy has never occurred. In secondary infertility, one or both members of the couple have previously conc...
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Infertility is the failure of a couple to conceive a pregnancy after trying to do so for at least one full year. In primary infertility, pregnancy has never occurred. In secondary infertility, one or both members of the couple have previously conc...
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Unintentional weight loss is a decrease in body weight that is not voluntary. In other words, you did not try to loss the weight by dieting or exercising. See: Intentional weight loss
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Weight loss is a reduction in body mass characterized by a loss of adipose tissue (body fat) and skeletal muscle.
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Delayed growth is poor or abnormally slow height or weight gains in a child younger than age 5. See also: Short stature
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