Pituitary Medicine From Discovery to Patient-Focused Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Context

This perspective traces a pipeline of discovery in pituitary medicine over the past 75 years.

Objective

To place in context past advances and predict future changes in understanding pituitary pathophysiology and clinical care.

Design

Author's perspective on reports of pituitary advances in the published literature.

Setting

Clinical and translational Endocrinology.

Outcomes

Discovery of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis and mechanisms for pituitary control, have culminated in exquisite understanding of anterior pituitary cell function and dysfunction. Challenges facing the discipline include fundamental understanding of pituitary adenoma pathogenesis leading to more effective treatments of inexorably growing and debilitating hormone secreting pituit

SUBMITTER: Melmed S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4803158 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature