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Selective bilateral and simultaneous catheterization of the inferior petrosal sinus: CRF stimulates prolactin secretion from ACTH-producing microadenomas in Cushing's disease.

Abstract：

:Bilateral, selective and simultaneous catheterization of the inferior petrosal sinus with measurements of ACTH after stimulation with ovine corticotrophin-releasing factor (CRF) is now frequently used to establish the differential diagnosis in patients with Cushing's disease and to determine the side of the microadenoma in the pituitary. To investigate whether CRF has any effect on other pituitary hormones, we also determined prolactin (PRL) concentrations in the samples obtained during this procedure. Fourteen patients under evaluation for Cushing's syndrome and one patient with a hormonally inactive pituitary tumour were catheterized. Baseline PRL levels in the peripheral veins were within the normal range before and after CRF in all patients (3.7-16.0 ng/ml). In 10 patients ACTH- and PRL concentrations lateralized to one side of the pituitary and could both be stimulated by CRF. The gradient of PRL between inferior petrosal sinus and periphery ranged from 7 to 147 ng/ml after CRF. There was no correlation between ACTH and prolactin increase in response to CRF. In three patients with no ACTH-gradient but a positive response to CRF, no tumours could be found during transsphenoidal surgery; they had no PRL-gradient and showed no PRL response to CRF. One patient with the ectopic ACTH syndrome had no ACTH- and no PRL response to CRF. The patient with the inactive pituitary tumour showed a normal ACTH-, but no PRL response to CRF. These data demonstrate for the first time that in normo-prolactinaemic patients with Cushing's disease, in contrast to patients bearing no microadenoma, PRL is secreted in response to CRF.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

journal_name

Clin Endocrinol (Oxf)

journal_title

Clinical endocrinology

authors

Schulte HM,Allolio B,Günther RW,Benker G,Winkelmann W,Ohnhaus EE,Reinwein D

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2265.1988.tb01215.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1988-03-01 00:00:00

pages

289-95

issue

eissn

0300-0664

issn

1365-2265

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Selective bilateral and simultaneous catheterization of the inferior petrosal sinus: CRF stimulates prolactin secretion from ACTH-producing microadenomas in Cushing's disease.