A Rare Case of Postpartum Panhypopituitarism Without Imaging Evidence of Sheehan's Syndrome

Yusra Ansari; Saad A Ansari; Tahir Muhammad Abdullah Khan; Syed Naqvi; Karen Lyons

doi:10.7759/cureus.27413

A Rare Case of Postpartum Panhypopituitarism Without Imaging Evidence of Sheehan's Syndrome

Cureus. 2022 Jul 28;14(7):e27413. doi: 10.7759/cureus.27413. eCollection 2022 Jul.

Authors

Yusra Ansari¹, Saad A Ansari², Tahir Muhammad Abdullah Khan³, Syed Naqvi¹, Karen Lyons⁴

Affiliations

¹ Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky, Bowling Green, USA.
² Internal Medicine, University of California Riverside School of Medicine, Riverside, USA.
³ Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Kentucky, Bowling Green, USA.
⁴ Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Med Center Health, Bowling Green, USA.

Abstract

We present a case of a 35-year-old female with type 2 diabetes mellitus who delivered a female neonate via normal vaginal delivery without any peripartum complication and minimal blood loss. The patient developed features of panhypopituitarism in the post-partum period with imaging with CT and MRI showing unremarkable pituitary gland. This is a rare presentation of post-partum panhypopituitarism with normal imaging studies.

Keywords: adrenal insufficiency (ai); hyponatremia; hypothyroid; panhypopituitarism; sheehan’s syndrome.

Publication types

Case Reports