ALLMedicine™ Pituitary Apoplexy Center

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...

Jul 12th, 2020 - Pituitary apoplexy during pregnancy is rare but important to recognise, particularly in the hyperoestrogenaemic state when known lactotroph hyperplasia occurs. Untreated, the complication rates from pituitary adenomas depend upon the size of the a...

Jun 16th, 2020 - Cerebral infarction caused by pituitary apoplexy (PA) is rare. To characterize the clinical features of cerebral infarction caused by PA, we performed a systematic review. The clinical symptoms are mainly sudden headache, hemiplegia, visual impair...

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...

Jul 12th, 2020 - Pituitary apoplexy during pregnancy is rare but important to recognise, particularly in the hyperoestrogenaemic state when known lactotroph hyperplasia occurs. Untreated, the complication rates from pituitary adenomas depend upon the size of the a...

Jun 16th, 2020 - Cerebral infarction caused by pituitary apoplexy (PA) is rare. To characterize the clinical features of cerebral infarction caused by PA, we performed a systematic review. The clinical symptoms are mainly sudden headache, hemiplegia, visual impair...

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.