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An adult client has been diagnosed with a rare disorder, Simmonds' disease (panhypopituitarism) and placed on hormone replacements. Thank you for your interest in spreading the word about The BMJ. Trousseau's sign is elicited by which of the following? SUMMARY - A case of Simmonds's disease in a man was caused by an acute lesion, probably due to haemorrhage, in the pituitary gland.
Cholesteryl ester storage disease Chordoma Chylomicron retention disease Coffin-Lowry syndrome Cohen syndrome Combined pituitary hormone deficiencies, genetic forms Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase deficiency Congenital generalized lipodystrophy In their view, the low basal metabolic rate (B.M.R.) They suggested that in such cases the suprarenal cortex must have undergone considerable functional atrophy, so that it could no longer respond to stimulation by pituitary hormones. (DUNELM) MedicalRegistrar, Southend GeneralHospital Since Simmonds' (I914) original description, the concept of this disease has undergone a con- siderable change. Check on one or more symptoms to find possible causes. Simmonds' disease or pituitary cachexia is a syndrome ascribed to destruction or physiological exhaustion of the hypophysis (chiefly the anterior portion). Forsham et al. Synonym(s): hypophysial cachexia; pituitary cachexia; Simmonds syndrome H. L. SHEEHAN; SIMMONDS'S DISEASE DUE TO POST-PARTUM NECROSIS OF THE ANTERIOR PITUITARY1, QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, Volume 8, Issue 4, 1 Octob Simmonds' disease (also Simmonds' syndrome) refers to panhypopituitarism caused by the destruction of the pituitary gland due to infiltrative processes (e.g. Simmonds' disease dueto causes otherthan post-partum necrosis is much less common, but may be found in men. About this Symptom Checker. Treatment Reports oftreatment in cases of Simmonds' disease are mainly unreliable, because of the confusion existing between this disease and anorexia nervosa.
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Simmonds, David OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE (RCW 51.08.140) Psychiatric conditions (mental/mental) A worker's mental breakdown due to stress, anxiety and fearfulness arising out of a temporary job as a store manager qualifies as an occupational disease where the conditions leading to the breakdown were objectively manifested, and were not of a kind [1] The first description of the condition was made in 1914 by the German physician Dr Morris Simmonds.