Do you pursue additional cardiac evaluation for patients diagnosed with Sheehan Syndrome, considering their elevated risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases?
Mohammad et al., PMID 40246232
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Do you pursue additional cardiac evaluation for patients diagnosed with Sheehan Syndrome, considering their elevated risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases?
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Endocrinology · Johns Hopkins Endocrinology and Pituitary Center
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I do not think that Sheehan has a specific coronary disease increased risk compared with other causes of early-onset hypopituitarism. Likely, the high prevalence of coronary calcifications described in the cited paper was due to long-standing untreated GH deficiency (and possibly untreated or incomp...
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