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Jose needs your help

by Clinica Siloe on January 29, 2012

Maria knew there was something wrong with her child. He was having seizures, his head was abnormally large, and he just didn’t seem right.

But the doctors at the hospitals she went to kept telling her there was nothing wrong. Finally, as her son Jose neared his 5th birthday, a doctor at a government-run clinic agreed to do some blood tests. His levels of growth hormone and prolactin were off the charts. The doctor suggested a CT scan of her son’s head.

A few days later Maria and her son Jose showed up at Siloé Clinic asking us to review the CT and give her our opinion. We were shocked at the results. Jose has a large pituitary macroadenoma–a tumor of the pituitary gland that is secreting high levels of growth hormone. This has resulted in gigantism; her son at just five years old weighs almost 75 pounds and is the height of an average eight year old.

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