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1 A 21-year-old man with rapidly deteriorating somnolence Neurology Resident and Fellow Section © 2013 American Academy of Neurology

2 A 21-year-old man presented with headache, hypotony, hypothermia and somnolence deteriorating to a Glasgow Coma Scale of 3 within days. Hormonal testing revealed panhypopituitarism. A therapy with prednisolone resulted in a rapid improvement in his clinical condition and he was released from intensive care after one week. Bergner et al.

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5 Ma2-Encephalitis presenting as acute panhypopituitarism in a young man Ma2-antibodies were found in the patient's serum and cerebrospinal fluid. FDG-PET demonstrated a tumor mass in the superior mediastinum and the histology revealed a mediastinal seminoma. Ma2-antibody mediated paraneoplastic disease has to be considered as a rare differential diagnosis in patients presenting with acute panhypopituitarism. Bergner et al.


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