VIDEO: Chronic hormonal effects to look for following traumatic brain injury
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CHICAGO—In this video exclusive, Tamara Wexler, MD, PhD, discusses evaluation and treatment of pituitary hormone deficiencies that can occur after acquired brain injury, from mild to severe concussions.
Wexler is a neuroendocrinologist and clinical associate professor in the division of rehabilitation medicine at NYU Langone in New York and adjunct associate professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Healio | Endocrine Today Editorial Board Member.
Predicting who will develop pituitary deficiency following brain injury is not based on severity, according to Wexler.
“You could have a milder, moderate or severe traumatic brain injury and still develop a pituitary hormone deficiency,” Wexler said. “People have looked at imaging characteristics and biomarkers, and there’s just nothing consistent or clinically useful now. So, the best that we have is really symptoms.”
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