Acta Médica Portuguesa (May 1997)

Síndrome de Sheehan.

  • N Godinho,
  • J M Lopes,
  • V V Augusto,
  • T Eliseu,
  • P M da Silva,
  • H Bastos,
  • F L Nobre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.20344/amp.2426
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 5

Abstract

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The authors describe a case of Sheehan's syndrome that followed hemorrhagic complications due to late abortion, and emphasise the infrequency of changes in plasma lipid levels in this disease. They report a particular case of hypopituitarism and point out the main concepts of pathophysiology, diagnosis, therapeutics and complications that follow this increasingly rarer condition.