The Pituitary Clinic, initiated in 2007, is a twice-weekly subspecialty clinic dedicated to the evaluation and management of patients with pituitary disorders, including pituitary tumors, craniopharyngiomas, inflammatory lesions, and other abnormalities of the hypothalamo-pituitary region. The clinic was established to streamline the work-up, perioperative management, and postoperative follow-up of patients in accordance with standardized protocols.
The clinic collaborates closely with one of the country’s leading Neurosurgery departments, achieving high remission rates for both functioning and non-functioning pituitary tumors. Patients with inoperable tumors or residual disease following surgery are offered radiotherapy. Weekly multidisciplinary team meetings with neurosurgical units allow individualized treatment planning and ensure seamless coordination of postoperative care, including endocrine monitoring and long-term follow-up.
Additionally, the clinic provides fertility induction and reproductive support for patients wishing to conceive after treatment for pituitary disorders, in collaboration with the Department of Reproductive Medicine.
The clinic also has active research programs focused on improving perioperative management strategies, understanding and preventing postoperative diabetes insipidus, and addressing delayed hyponatremia following pituitary surgery.
The pituitary clinic is a twice weekly sub-specialty clinic that serves patients with pituitary disorders including pituitary tumours, craniopharyngioma, inflammatory and other lesions in the hypothalamo-pituitary region. The clinic was started more than a decade ago to streamline the work-up, peri-operative management and post-operative follow-up of patients with pituitary disorders as per standard protocols.
We have one of the best Neurosurgery departments in the country with good remission rates for functioning and non-functioning pituitary tumours. Patients with inoperable tumours or those with residual tumours on post-operative follow-up are offered radiotherapy. We have multi-disciplinary team meetings with Neurosurgical units every week to discuss about the treatment strategies for individual patients, and also facilitate smooth post-operative recovery of these patients through regular post-operative endocrine monitoring and follow-up.
We also offer treatment for induction of fertility in patients desiring to have a child following treatment for their pituitary tumour, in association with Reproductive medicine department. Our research interests have been on pathways for peri-operative management of patients with pituitary tumours, post-operative diabetes insipidus and delayed hyponatremia following pituitary surgery.
