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Recurrent Anaphylactic Reactions: An Uncommon Debut of Lymphocytic Hypophysitis
International Archives of Allergy and Immunology, 05/14/2012
Bobolea I et al. – The MRI showed a slight thickening of the infundibulum, without pituitary adenoma. Suspecting an autoimmune hypophysitis, the authors looked for antipituitary antibodies; the result was positive. A clinical picture of recurrent anaphylactic reactions, the result of complicated adrenal crises in an asthmatic patient, was a manifestation of lymphocytic hypophysitis, a rare chronic inflammatory disease of autoimmune etiology. One year after replacement therapy had been started, the patient remained asymptomatic.
