From Lewis S Blevins, Jr. MD – I see a lot of men who are concerned about taking testosterone replacement for hypogonadism due to pituitary disease. Their concerns are primarily related to whether exogenous testosterone
From Lewis S Blevins, Jr MD – I spoke at a conference recently regarding testosterone replacement therapy in patients with male hypogonadism. It was unusual conference populated by pharmacists, doctors of pharmacy, key decision makers for
From Lewis Blevins, MD – Photo from The Huffington Post – Testosterone use in men has been “associated” with cardiovascular risk. In my opinion, this is because men with cardiovascular disease, who are obviously sick,
From Lewis S Blevins, Jr. M.D. – Long-term follow-up of patients with pituitary disorders is essential for many reasons. Firstly, those patients who have been rendered disease-free are always at risk for recurrence. While long-term
Today’s podcast discusses HCG and its use with men with hypopituitarism and infertility. Dr. Blevins focuses his discussion on many of the relevant subjects related to hypogonadism (where the body does not produce enough testosterone),
From Lewis S. Blevins, Jr. MD – I define hypopituitarism as the partial or complete deficiency of one or more anterior pituitary hormones. Panhypopituitarism is, of course, deficiency of all of the anterior pituitary
From Lewis S Blevins, Jr MD – The pituitary gland is certainly quite small, and not metabolically active when compared to other organs, thus commands a very small fraction of the cardiac output. Pituitary blood
From Lewis Blevins, MD – LH and FSH are produced by the pituitary gland under the regulation of pulsatile secretion of GnRH from the hypothalamus. LH stimulates the Leydig cells of the testes to produce testosterone.
From Lewis Blevins MD – LH and FSH are produced by the pituitary gland under the regulation of pulsatile secretion of GnRH from the hypothalamus. LH stimulates the thecal cells around a developing egg in
Karen Webb-Meek from the UK wrote us about her daughter Poppy. This is a short film about Poppy Webb-Jones who has the condition Panhypopituitarism (PHP) which is a disorder where many of the hormones essential
From Dr. Lewis Blevins. Patient’s with pituitary and thyroid disorders may be required to make adjustments in thyroid hormone dosages since their glands cannot work together to make those adjustments in certain situations that