News Articles October 2025

When Cushing’s becomes cancer: metastasis or induced by radiation?

An article in Cushing’s Disease News looks at a study that examines the case of two women whose benign tumors associated with Cushing’s disease turned malignant.  The question is whether they metastasized or if radiation could have induced the transformation.  More info: https://cushingsdiseasenews.com/news/cushings-pituitary-tumors-rarely-aggressive-cancers/

Pituitary apoplexy: symptomatic vs asymptomatic

A study in the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience looks at the clinical profile of patients with and without symptoms of pituitary apoplexy.  Symptoms include “headache, vomiting and cranial nerve palsies.”  People without symptoms who suffered pituitary apoplexy had lower white blood cell counts and lower blood sodium levels. Read more: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967586825005983

When a pituitary macroadenoma causes sepsis-like symptoms

A study on Cureus.com presents a case report where a woman was initially treated for sepsis but turned out to have a pituitary macroadenoma.  Read more: https://assets.cureus.com/uploads/case_report/pdf/413034/20250912-112610-bm0ldk.pdf

 Acute Sheehan’s Syndrome after post-partum pituitary hemorrhage

A case study presented on Cureus.com looks at the patient who gave birth, suffered a pituitary hemorrhage, and developed acute Sheehan’s Syndome and then pituitary atrophy eight months postpartum. Read more: https://assets.cureus.com/uploads/case_report/pdf/411201/20250914-401650-bm0ldk.pdf