EDITORIAL article
Front. Endocrinol.
Sec. Pituitary Endocrinology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fendo.2025.1674324
This article is part of the Research TopicProgress in Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypothalamic & Pituitary DisordersView all 6 articles
Editorial to Special Issue: Diagnosis And Treatment of Hypothalamic & Pituitary Disorders.
Provisionally accepted
- 1Collegium Medicum, Mazovian University of Plock, Plock, Poland
- 2Department of Internal Diseases and Clinical Pharmacology, The Medical University of Lodz, Poland, Lodz, Poland
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the importance of glucose monitoring during GST in order to validate optimal condition for GH stimulation and support clinical decisions in GH deficiency management. They showed that glucose nadir below 3.33 mmol/l is the only biochemical biovariable linked with optimal GH secretion during GST (i.e. 100% sensitivity), whereas mechanisms responsible for cortisol secretion remain unclear. Having said that, it must be also understood that adequate stimulus for GH secretion may be obtained also in subjects who fail to reach the abovementioned glucose nadir, while the lack of a clear mechanism responsible for cortisol
Keywords: Pituitary, pituitary tumours, Glucagon stimulation test, Synacthen test, Prader-Willy Syndrome, Cerebrospinal Fluid
Received: 27 Jul 2025; Accepted: 04 Aug 2025.
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* Correspondence: Krzysztof Cezary Lewandowski, Collegium Medicum, Mazovian University of Plock, Plock, Poland
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