An autoimmune disease of the pituitary gland which can present with varying degrees of pituitary hormonal impairment and/or with symptoms related to pituitary enlargement. It predominantly affects young women in pregnancy or the peripartum period. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21592417 ]
Synonyms: lymphocytic adenohypophysitis adenohypophysis inflammation inflammation of adenohypophysis anterior pituitary hypophysitis
Term information
- MEDGEN:1677203 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- Orphanet:95512 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- UMLS:C5190880 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- GARD:19284 (MONDO:GARD)
gard_rare, ordo_disorder, rare, nord_rare, orphanet_rare
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/mondo/patterns/specific_inflammatory_disease_by_site.yaml
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/mondo/patterns/inflammatory_disease_by_site.yaml
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/mondo/patterns/specific_infectious_disease_by_location.yaml
http://identifiers.org/medgen/1677203
http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_95512
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C5190880