ALLMedicine™ Pituitary Apoplexy Center

Oct 16th, 2020 - Pituitary apoplexy causing thunderclap headache: easy to miss.|2020|Equiza J,Rodríguez-Antigüedad J,Campo-Caballero D,Iruzubieta Agudo P,Ruibal M,|

Sep 22nd, 2020 - The management of pituitary apoplexy, a rare emergency neuroendocrine condition, is controversial. The aim of the present study is to compare the outcomes of patients with pituitary apoplexy managed either by a conservative or surgical approach. A...

Sep 11th, 2020 - We report a case of a pregnant female presenting with pituitary apoplexy and simultaneous SARS-CoV-2 infection with a focus on management decisions. A 28-year-old G5P1 38w1d female presented with 4 days of blurry vision, left dilated pupil, and he...

Sep 1st, 2020 - (1) Describe presentation, management and outcomes of a single-centre series of patients with pituitary apoplexy. (2) Compare early and long-term outcomes of conservative and surgical management. (3) Identify predictive factors for visual recovery...

Jul 23rd, 2020 - Sellar lesions with large suprasellar extension represent a neurosurgical challenge because of their nature and anatomic complexity. The goal of the extended transphenoidal-transtuberculum approach is enlarging the transsphenoidal route superiorly...

Oct 16th, 2020 - Pituitary apoplexy causing thunderclap headache: easy to miss.|2020|Equiza J,Rodríguez-Antigüedad J,Campo-Caballero D,Iruzubieta Agudo P,Ruibal M,|

Sep 22nd, 2020 - The management of pituitary apoplexy, a rare emergency neuroendocrine condition, is controversial. The aim of the present study is to compare the outcomes of patients with pituitary apoplexy managed either by a conservative or surgical approach. A...

Sep 11th, 2020 - We report a case of a pregnant female presenting with pituitary apoplexy and simultaneous SARS-CoV-2 infection with a focus on management decisions. A 28-year-old G5P1 38w1d female presented with 4 days of blurry vision, left dilated pupil, and he...

Sep 1st, 2020 - (1) Describe presentation, management and outcomes of a single-centre series of patients with pituitary apoplexy. (2) Compare early and long-term outcomes of conservative and surgical management. (3) Identify predictive factors for visual recovery...

Jul 23rd, 2020 - Sellar lesions with large suprasellar extension represent a neurosurgical challenge because of their nature and anatomic complexity. The goal of the extended transphenoidal-transtuberculum approach is enlarging the transsphenoidal route superiorly...

Feb 5th, 2017 - The most common symptom of pituitary apoplexy is headache. Almost all patients describe a sudden, severe retro-orbital or bifrontal headache, which is associated with vomiting in two thirds of cases.[4] The headache and vomiting result from the su...

Apr 20th, 2011 - Surgical treatment of a pituitary incidentaloma is recommended when the lesion is causing a visual field deficit or other visual abnormalities, such as ophthalmoplegia "or neurological compromise," according to evidence-based clinical practice gui.

Pituitary Pathology Pituitary Tumors The Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States reports the incidence of pituitary tumors to be 6% of all brain tumors.[3] Tumors involving the pituitary gland typically affect the anterior pituitary, or ...

Discussion Although Day and Raskin[1] initially coined the term thunderclap headache to refer to the headache associated with an unruptured aneurysm, the most common secondary cause is subarachnoid hemorrhage. Other secondary causes include cerebr...