Autoimmune pituitary inflammation

Krzewski Szymon, Baranowski Mateusz, Wzorek Katarzyna. Autoimmune pituitary inflammation. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2022;12(2):11-15. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2022.12.02.001 https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2022.12.02.001 https://zenodo.org/record/5946864 The journal has had 40 points in Ministry of Education and Science of Poland parametric evaluation. Annex to the announcement of the Minister of Education and Science of December 1, 2021. No. 32343. Has a Journal's Unique Identifier: 201159. Scientific disciplines assigned: Physical Culture Sciences (Field of Medical sciences and health sciences); Health Sciences (Field of Medical Sciences and Health Sciences). Punkty Ministerialne z 2019 - aktualny rok 40 punktów. Załącznik do komunikatu Ministra Edukacji i Nauki z dnia 1 grudnia 2021 r. Lp. 32343. Posiada Unikatowy Identyfikator Czasopisma: 201159. Przypisane dyscypliny naukowe:Nauki o kulturze fizycznej (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu); Nauki o zdrowiu (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu). © The Authors 2022; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 02.01.2022. Revised: 17.01.2022. Accepted: 02.02.2022. Autoimmune pituitary inflammation Szymon Krzewski 1 - https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-6741 smn.krzak@gmail.com Mateusz Baranowski 2 - https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7266-738X mateusz.gromek.baranowskI@gmail.com Katarzyna Wzorek 3 – https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1873-0629 kwzorek@gmail.com 1. lek. dent., Chair and Department of Pedodontics, Medical University of Lublin, Poland 2. lek. dent., Chair and Department of Periodontology Medical University of Lublin, Poland 3. mgr. Department of Radiation Therapy, Independent Public Clinical Hospital No.1 in Lublin, Poland Key words: pituitary gland, autoimmune diseases, autoimmune pituitary inflammation Abstract: Autoimmune Hypophysitis (AH) is often refereed in the literature as lymphocytic pituitary inflammation. It is the most common form of rare, chronic inflammation states affecting this gland. In most cases it has autoimmune character. Symptoms of pituitary inflammation are mostly headaches, dysfunction of anterior and/or posterior pituitary lobe and visual disturbances. Diagnostics is extremely difficult and inflammation itself is probably diagnosed too rare. Autoimmune Hypophysitis coexist with other autoimmune endocrinopathies. The golden standard in Autoimmune Hypophysitis diagnosis is biopsy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is also used. In relation to rare occurrence of the Autoimmune Hypophysitis, varied clinical picture and lack of standardized research on large group of patients there are no described standards of conduct with those patients