Pituitary apoplexy historical perspective

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Akshun Kalia M.B.B.S.[2]

Overview

Pituitary apoplexy was first discovered by Pearce Bailey in the year 1898. In 1905, Leopold Bleibtreu recorded the postmortem examination of a 21-year-old acromegalic patient, in whom he discovered that the pituitary gland had been replaced by an old hemorrhage. The term pituitary apoplexy was coined by Brougham, Heusner, and Adams in 1950.

Historical perspective

Discovery

In 1898, Pearce Bailey, an American neurologist, discovered pituitary apoplexy.
In 1905, Leopold Bleibtreu, a German physicist, performed the first postmortem examination on a patient with pituitary apoplexy.
In 1950, Brougham, Heusner, and Adams from the Boston City Hospital and Harvard Medical School coined the term “pituitary apoplexy”.^[1]

Landmark Events in the Development of Treatment Strategies

In 1925, the first surgery for pituitary apoplexy was performed.

References

↑ BROUGHAM M, HEUSNER AP, ADAMS RD (1950). “Acute degenerative changes in adenomas of the pituitary body–with special reference to pituitary apoplexy”. J. Neurosurg. 7 (5): 421–39. doi:10.3171/jns.1950.7.5.0421. PMID 14774761.

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[pmid14774761-1] BROUGHAM M, HEUSNER AP, ADAMS RD (1950). “Acute degenerative changes in adenomas of the pituitary body–with special reference to pituitary apoplexy”. J. Neurosurg. 7 (5): 421–39. doi:10.3171/jns.1950.7.5.0421. PMID 14774761.

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