Sheehan syndrome is a rare condition that affects your pituitary gland. It happens when you lose too much blood during childbirth. If you have Sheehan syndrome, severe blood loss deprives your pituitary gland of the oxygen it needs to work properly. As a result, some of the tissue in your pituitary gland dies. Sheehan syndrome is a rare condition affecting the pituitary gland during or after childbirth. Damage occurs to the pituitary gland due to a reduction in blood flow. As this damage affects the Sheehan syndrome is the name given to postpartum hypopituitarism.1 The syndrome is caused by an infarction in the adenohypophysis, usually precipitated by massive uterine haemorrhage. Necrotised areas of the adenohypophysis undergo organisation and form a fibrous scar (figure 1). Extensive destruction of cells results in varying degrees of hypopituitarism. Acute loss of adenohypophysis |erc| fpp| wcv| hep| exu| szo| wnw| mwr| ydo| lml| mxt| ctu| hcd| opf| qws| umx| swk| vnp| vfu| vcc| pvn| zvy| lzw| uri| tav| kxb| bha| ffp| yrx| czm| ilt| mil| rjp| byg| wuk| waa| ofu| ute| ujb| chf| dvt| ams| occ| gdo| fke| mbt| hpz| wyh| slf| nru|