Congenital hypopituitarism: monitoring after coronary artery bypass grafting.
Cardiovascular disease in patients with congenital hypopituitarism is not rare; however, there is a lack of reports referring to cardiac interventions in such patients. We present a 76-year-old man with complete pituitary hormone deficiency, who presented with recurrent events of unstable angina. He had a significant stenosis of the left anterior descending artery and he underwent off-pump coronary artery bypass. Our aim is to present the successful management of this patient with congenital hypopituitarism who underwent cardiac surgery and to review the relevant literature.
Siminelakis
Stavros
S
Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Ioannina, School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece.
Kotsanti
Angeliki
A
Baikoussis
Nikolaos G
NG
Andrikoula
Maria
M
Bairaktari
Eleni
E
Papadopoulos
George
G
D000368:Aged; D000789:Angina, Unstable / Q000150:complications; D047549:Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump / Q000379:methods*; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000601:surgery; D004393:Dwarfism, Pituitary / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007018:Hypopituitarism / Q000150:complications* / Q000151:congenital*; D008297:Male; D008323:Mammary Arteries / Q000637:transplantation; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D010907:Pituitary Hormones / Q000097:blood
D010907:Pituitary Hormones