Abstract:

In recent years, the prevalence of hypopituitarism following traumatic brain injury has been significantly increasing. Up till now, routine neuroendocrine assessments have not been conducted for patients with traumatic brain injury in common clinical practice, and a lot of patients have not been treated in time. The research progress of prevalence, pathogenesis and diagnosis methods of hypopituitarism following traumatic brain injury in recent years is reviewed in this paper.

Key words: traumatic brain injury, anterior hypopituitarism, chronic phase