Pituitary infarction

Pituitary infarction
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What is Pituitary infarction?
Pituitary infarction or pituitary apoplexy is a disorder of the pituitary gland.

Pituitary infarction is the death of an area of tissue in the pituitary gland, a small gland joined to the hypothalamus (part of the brain). The pituitary produces many of the hormones that control essential body processes.

See also: Bleeding, Infarction, Sheehan syndrome, Symptom, Arthritis