ALLMedicine™ Pituitary Apoplexy Center

Jun 14th, 2021 - Prolactinomas are a common cause of sexual dysfunction and infertility. We aimed, through this case report, to illustrate the difficulties of management of women with giant prolactinoma, especially in cases of desire of pregnancy. A 30-year-old wo...

Jun 1st, 2021 - An 84-year-old man presented with a frontal headache and easy bruising. He had a background history of a pituitary macroadenoma, diagnosed incidentally a year earlier. Investigations showed haemorrhage into the pituitary macroadenoma leading to a ...

May 27th, 2021 - Pituitary apoplexy is a rare endocrine emergency. The purpose of this study is to characterize physiological changes involved in pituitary apoplexy, especially during the acute phase. A Cushing's disease patient experienced corticotroph releasing ...

May 27th, 2021 - Patients with growth hormone (GH)-secreting adenoma usually develop glucose intolerance. GH increases metabolic rate and, when secreted aberrantly, may result in metabolic syndrome. Herein, we examine the associations of pituitary tumor-induced se...

May 27th, 2021 - Pregnancy is a known risk factor for pituitary apoplexy, which is life threatening for both mother and child. However, very few clinical interventions have been proposed for managing pituitary apoplexy in pregnancy. We describe the management of t...

Jun 14th, 2021 - Prolactinomas are a common cause of sexual dysfunction and infertility. We aimed, through this case report, to illustrate the difficulties of management of women with giant prolactinoma, especially in cases of desire of pregnancy. A 30-year-old wo...

Jun 1st, 2021 - An 84-year-old man presented with a frontal headache and easy bruising. He had a background history of a pituitary macroadenoma, diagnosed incidentally a year earlier. Investigations showed haemorrhage into the pituitary macroadenoma leading to a ...

May 27th, 2021 - Pituitary apoplexy is a rare endocrine emergency. The purpose of this study is to characterize physiological changes involved in pituitary apoplexy, especially during the acute phase. A Cushing's disease patient experienced corticotroph releasing ...

May 27th, 2021 - Patients with growth hormone (GH)-secreting adenoma usually develop glucose intolerance. GH increases metabolic rate and, when secreted aberrantly, may result in metabolic syndrome. Herein, we examine the associations of pituitary tumor-induced se...

May 27th, 2021 - Pregnancy is a known risk factor for pituitary apoplexy, which is life threatening for both mother and child. However, very few clinical interventions have been proposed for managing pituitary apoplexy in pregnancy. We describe the management of t...

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...