产后垂体前叶功能减退症系1914年Sim-mouds氏首先注意并且他发表了该病之病理变化及临床症状。其后,有Sheehan氏将此病详加研究和分析并详述该病所表现之各种临床症状,进一步阐明了该病之原因和发病机理,故又名之为“席汉氏综合病征”。自1913年以来,Sheehan氏曾多次发表关于产后垂体前叶功能减退之研究和著作,使学者对该病有进一步的认识。近年来,国内文献对该病亦有连续的发表,因知患是病 Anterior pituitary hypofunction in postnatal period 1914 Sim-mouds’s first attention and he published the pathological changes and clinical symptoms of the disease. Subsequently, Sheehan’s disease will be more detailed study and analysis and detailed description of the various clinical manifestations of the disease, to further clarify the cause of the disease and pathogenesis, it is also known as “Xi Han’s syndrome” . Since 1913, Sheehan’s has repeatedly published on post-natal anterior pituitary dysfunction studies and writings, so that scholars have a better understanding of the disease. In recent years, the domestic literature on the disease has also been published consecutively, because known to be sick