EnglishSeveral comorbidities are associatedwith the HIV infection and may involvealso the endocrine-metabolic system. Consistently,the recent development of the therapeuticregimen highly active antiretroviraltherapy (HAART) ruled out a significant improvementboth in the prognosis and life expectancyof HIV-infected patients, but disclosedalso new serious drug-related toxicity.Of these, the lipodystrophy syndrome isthe most frequent, occurring in up to 83% ofHIV-infected patients under HAART. The HIVrelatedlipodystrophy is associated with alterationsin GH dynamics, affecting bothbasal and stimulated GH secretion. This GHIGF-I secretive pattern resembles that of severeGH deficiency in adulthood due to pituitarydiseases, but without leading to IGF-Iserum levels below the normal range. The impairmentof pituitary GH secretion has beenascribed to the hormonal and metabolic inhibitoryeffect due to adipose tissue redistributionin HIV-infected males, since in thesepatients pituitary GH secretion appeared tobe inversely related to visceral adipose tissueaccumulation and waist to-hip-ratio. However,whether these patients suffer from a true GHdeficiency due to an intrinsic pituitary failureor display only a functional reduction of GHsecretion due to visceral adiposity remainsstill a matter of debate, especially in HIV-infectedfemales.
| Data di pubblicazione: | 2008 |
| Titolo: | Hypopituitarism and HIV-infection: a new comorbidity in the HAART era? |
| Autore/i: | Zirilli, Lucia; Orlando, Gabriella; Diazzi, Chiara; Squillace, Nicola; Carani, Cesare; Guaraldi, Giovanni; Rochira, Vincenzo |
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| Volume: | 31 (Suppl 9) |
| Pagina iniziale: | 33 |
| Pagina finale: | 38 |
| Codice identificativo Scopus: | 2-s2.0-60749110770 |
| Codice identificativo Pubmed: | 19020383 |
| Citazione: | Hypopituitarism and HIV-infection: a new comorbidity in the HAART era? / Zirilli, Lucia; Orlando, Gabriella; Diazzi, Chiara; Squillace, Nicola; Carani, Cesare; Guaraldi, Giovanni; Rochira, Vincenzo. - In: JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION. - ISSN 0391-4097. - STAMPA. - 31 (Suppl 9)(2008), pp. 33-38. |
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