Review Article
Diagnosing Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults
Table 1
Adult patients in whom testing for GHD can be considered.
| (i) Those with structural lesions of hypothalamic-pituitary region for example, pituitary adenoma, craniopharyngioma | | (ii) Following surgery to the hypothalamic-pituitary region | | (iii) Those with biochemical evidence of hypopituitarism for example, central hypothyroidism | | (iv) Those with genetic conditions associated with hypopituitarism for example, PIT-1, PROP-1 mutations | | (v) Following cranial irradiation | | (vi) Following moderate to severe traumatic brain injury and possibly aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage | |
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