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Postgraduate Medical Journal 1995;71:297-298; doi:10.1136/pgmj.71.835.297
© 1995 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.

Hypopituitarism in primary haemochromatosis; recovery after iron depletion.

R. Gama, M. J. Smith, J. Wright, V. Marks

Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, Surrey, UK.

We report a case of primary haemochromatosis complicated by anterior hypopituitarism which recovered after aggressive venesection therapy. Reversal of anterior hypopituitarism in haemochromatosis following iron depletion has not been previously described.


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