Abstract:Twenty-four patients who had a 10-year history of hypopituitarism resulting from treated chromophobe adenoma, without known family history of diabetes, were studied during oral glucose tolerance (GTT), arginine infusion, and insulin tolerance (ITT) tests. All patients were receiving thyroid and cortisone replacement. Serum immunoreactive growth hormone (HGH) was subnormal in all patients compared with normal subjects during both arginine infusion and ITT tests (P < 0.001).
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