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EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & DIABETES
Volume 119, Issue 1, Pages 15-20Publisher
JOHANN AMBROSIUS BARTH VERLAG MEDIZINVERLAGE HEIDELBERG GMBH
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1253414
Keywords
traumatic brain injury; subarachnoid hemorrhage; hypopituitarism; growth hormone deficiency; database
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- Pfizer
- Novo Nordisk
- Novartis
- Lilly
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Within the last years, a number of clinical studies have addressed the topic of hypothalamo-pituitary dysfunction following traumatic brain injury (TBI) and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Clinical studies oftentimes reflect the investigation of highly selective patient groups, very standardized test procedures and may be influenced by a publication bias. Epidemiological data on the prevalence and incidence of hypopituitarism after TBI and SAH in the general population still do not exist. Moreover, very little is known about risk factors and clinical characteristics of pituitary impairment after brain damage. Epidemiologic surveys which aggregate information of many different treatment centers become an increasingly important means of bridging the gap between standardized study situations and clinical practice. Therefore, a multi-center, structured data assessment to create a national registry of TB! and SAH patients has been established in 2005. The Structured Data Assessment of Hypopituitarism after TBI and SAH is coordinated by the Department of Endocrinology, Max-Planck-Institute in Munich with participation of at present 13 neurosurgical, rehabilitation and endocrinological centers in Germany and one Austrian center. Within this database, a large scope of very detailed, clinical, endocrine and outcome information is collected. It also offers the possibility of long-term follow up of the recorded patients. This is the first report of the registry describing goals, organization, methodology, funding and the descriptive data of the first 1 242 patients entered until November 20(th), 2008.
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