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We recruited 56 patients (47 with thalassemia major, five with chronically transfused thalassemia intermedia and four with Blackfan\u2010Diamond syndrome) to have pituitary MRIs to measure pituitary <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>2 and volume. Hypogonadism was defined clinically based on the timing of secondary sexual characteristics or the need for sex hormone replacement therapy. Patients with transfusional iron overload begin to develop pituitary iron overload in the first decade of life; however, clinically significant volume loss was not observed until the second decade of life. Severe pituitary iron deposition (<jats:italic>Z<\/jats:italic> &gt; 5) and volume loss (<jats:italic>Z<\/jats:italic> &lt; \u22122.5) were independently predictive of hypogonadism. Pituitary <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>2 correlated significantly with serum ferritin as well as liver, pancreatic, and cardiac iron deposition by MRI. Log pancreas <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>2* was the best single predictor for pituitary iron, with an area under the receiving operator characteristic curve of 0.88, but log cardiac <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>2* and ferritin were retained on multivariate regression with a combined <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic><jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> of 0.71. Pituitary iron overload and volume loss were independently predictive of hypogonadism. Many patients with moderate\u2010to\u2010severe pituitary iron overload retained normal gland volume and function, representing a potential therapeutic window. The subset of hypogonadal patients having preserved gland volumes may also explain improvements in pituitary function observed following intensive chelation therapy. Am. J. 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