Background: Congenital hypopituitarism is a clinical syndrome of deficiency in pituitary hormones production. Panhypopituitarism refers to involvement of more than one pituitary hormone while involvement of one hormone refers to partial hypopituitarism It is an uncommon disorder of the hypophyseal system but could be life threatening, however, it is treatable if the diagnosis is made early.
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