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Bashir Ahmad Laway; Arun S. Viswanath; Mohammad Salem Baba; Nisar Ahmad Tramboo; Zaffar Amin Shah; Ajaz Ahmad Lone; Imran Hafeez

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Bashir Ahmad Laway^1,*, Arun S. Viswanath¹, Mohammad Salem Baba¹, Nisar Ahmad Tramboo³, Zaffar Amin Shah², Ajaz Ahmad Lone³, Imran Hafeez³

¹Department of Endocrinology, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical, Sciences, Srinagar, 190 011, Jammu & Kashmir, India

²Department of Immunology & Molecular Medicine, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical, Sciences, Srinagar, 190 011, Jammu & Kashmir, India

³Department of Cardiology, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical, Sciences, Srinagar, 190 011, Jammu & Kashmir, India

*For correspondence: drlaway@gmail.com

Received: 2025-01-26, Accepted: 2025-04-15, Published: 2025-05-31

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Sir,

We greatly appreciate the reader’s interest in our article¹ published in the June 2024 issue of Indian Journal of Medical Research, which has raised intriguing questions.

As rightly pointed by the author that the aforementioned study has a small sample size, and its conclusions may not be generalizable². This represented our attempt to study pituitary functions within this cohort of patients, and we hope that larger studies will be conducted in the future.

Regarding confounding factors, we excluded all chronic diseases and conditions, including drug intake that could have interfered with the assessment of pituitary hormones. Furthermore, the patients were monitored and reassessed, which plausibly minimized the impact of acute stress on pituitary hormones.

As mentioned in the introduction of the article, we hypothesized that hypoperfusion due to a complete heart block could lead to vasospasm and hypoxia of pituitary tissue, resulting in long-term pituitary dysfunction³.

We once again thank the reader for their insightful comments and the opportunity to elaborate on our study.

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