The Pituitary Foundation (UK)

Pituitary Disorders
These pages are designed to give you a brief description of the most common pituitary disorders, together with links to relevant pages on the web site.
The disorders covered by these pages are:

Acromegaly
Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency
Craniopharyngioma
Cushing's Disease
Diabetes Insipidus
Hypopituitarism
Non-functioning tumours
Prolactinoma

Rarer Disorders, including Empty Sella Syndrome, Pituitary Infarction, Sheehan's Syndrome, Kallmann's Syndrome, Rathke's Cleft Cysts and Familial Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1, Wolfram Syndrome, & Septo-Optic Dysplasia.

To access please use link at bottom of page on National website or those given in Links page.
Links given on a page for a disorder are not exhaustive, for example, the newsletter section also contains information relating to treatments for pituitary conditions which are likely to be relevant to all conditions.

Information for Pituitary Patients

Many patients with a pituitary disorder will require life-long drug treatment and monitoring and their condition will, potentially, impact on many aspects of their life. The Foundation aims to provide information which will help minimise the day-to-day problems of living with pituitary disease.

Link to National Site at bottom of page. This section contains information on:


Diabetes Insipidus Toilet Facilities card
Donating blood
Driving restrictions
Prescription charges (UK and ROI only)
Services for patients on growth hormone (GH) (UK only)
A guide to benefits for patients and carers (UK only)
Insurance & pensions
Identification Emblems
The Telephone Buddies service (providing support to pituitary patients, carers and relatives)
Useful addresses
Travel tips
Some links to other resources
It is possible that you, as a patient, will have information you would like to share with the Foundation's members. If this is the case, we would very much like to hear from you. Please use Mailing form to make contact with your thoughts and comments so that we can keep these information pages up-to-date and interactive.
If you have not found the information or illness you were looking for, please make contact preferably by email:
awarenessindorset@pituitary.org.uk
Peter Randle

[First submitted: 18th September 2004]
30th April 2008