ALLMedicine™ Pituitary Apoplexy Center

Feb 10th, 2021 - Internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis rarely occurs in pituitary apoplexy. Little is known of the causes of this condition. The present study investigated the factors related to ICA stenosis associated with pituitary apoplexy. Forty-five patients...

Feb 10th, 2021 - Pituitary apoplexy (PA) is an endocrine emergency presenting with headache, visual and hormonal disturbances. Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) is rare after PA. A 64-year-old woman presented with acute frontal heada...

Jan 19th, 2021 - We aimed to assess clinical characteristics of apoplexy of pituitary microadenomas compared to macroadenomas. We retrieved clinical records of patients > 18 years old, hospitalized in Rambam hospital between January 2001 and October 2017, with pit...

Jan 15th, 2021 - Case of Pituitary Apoplexy After Surgery.|2021|McClain IJ,Skidd PM,|

Nov 12th, 2020 - Pituitary apoplexy (PA)-induced oculomotor palsy, although rare, can be caused by compression on the lateral wall of the cavernous sinus. This study aimed to visualize PA-induced oculomotor nerve damage using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) tractog...

Feb 10th, 2021 - Internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis rarely occurs in pituitary apoplexy. Little is known of the causes of this condition. The present study investigated the factors related to ICA stenosis associated with pituitary apoplexy. Forty-five patients...

Feb 10th, 2021 - Pituitary apoplexy (PA) is an endocrine emergency presenting with headache, visual and hormonal disturbances. Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) is rare after PA. A 64-year-old woman presented with acute frontal heada...

Jan 19th, 2021 - We aimed to assess clinical characteristics of apoplexy of pituitary microadenomas compared to macroadenomas. We retrieved clinical records of patients > 18 years old, hospitalized in Rambam hospital between January 2001 and October 2017, with pit...

Jan 15th, 2021 - Case of Pituitary Apoplexy After Surgery.|2021|McClain IJ,Skidd PM,|

Nov 12th, 2020 - Pituitary apoplexy (PA)-induced oculomotor palsy, although rare, can be caused by compression on the lateral wall of the cavernous sinus. This study aimed to visualize PA-induced oculomotor nerve damage using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) tractog...

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...