Epidemiology of acromegaly.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Survival rates among childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) have significantly risen in the last 40 years due to substantial improvements in treatment protocols. However, this improvement has brought with it serious late effects that frequently involve the endocrine system. Of the endocrine disorders, GH deficien...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Sbardella E,Crocco M,Feola T,Papa F,Puliani G,Gianfrilli D,Isidori AM,Grossman AB

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/PURPOSE:During the early phase of sepsis, hypotension is accompanied by increase of plasma vasopressin hormone (AVP) levels, which decline during the late phase. This hypotension is due in part to increase of nitric oxide (NO) synthesis by nitric oxide synthase (NOS) enzyme. Neuronal isoform of this enzyme (...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Coelho CH,Martins TF,Oliveira-Pelegrin GR,da Rocha MJA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Outcome of acromegaly surgery is assessed by IGF-1 and glucose-suppressed GH, but whether the latter provides additional clinically relevant information when IGF-1 is normal is unclear. The role of GH suppression testing after surgery requires clarification. METHODS:We studied 97 acromegaly patients with norma...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Freda PU,Bruce JN,Reyes-Vidal C,Singh S,DeLeon Y,Jin Z,Khandji AG,Cremers S,Post KD

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The sphenoid bone has a superior depression called the sella turcica, Latin for "Turkish saddle," where the pituitary gland is found. The availability of modern radiological imaging techniques has replaced plain radiography of the sella turcica in the investigation of hypothalamo-pituitary abnormalities. H...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Tekiner H,Acer N,Kelestimur F

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated familial somatotropinomas (IFS) rarely occurs in the absence of multiple endocrine neoplasia type I (MEN1) or the Carney complex. In the present study we report two Italian siblings affected by GH-secreting adenomas. There was no history of parental consanguinity. The sister presented at 18 years of age with ...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： De Menis E,Prezant TR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symptomatic cerebral vasospasm (CVS) after transsphenoidal surgery (TSS) is very rare compared with vasospasm resulting from aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Fewer than six cases documented by cerebral angiography have been reported. We evaluated the records of 15 patients in whom SAH developed after TSS. The...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Kim EH,Oh MC,Kim SH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenomas rarely originate outside the sella turcica. Ectopic locations include the suprasellar region, sphenoid sinus, cavernous sinus and clivus. We describe a 50-year-old female who presented with clinical signs and biochemical evidence of acromegaly. Pituitary MRI demonstrated a 2 mm hypointense lesion on...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Appel JG,Bergsneider M,Vinters H,Salamon N,Wang MB,Heaney AP

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is an anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated systemic vasculitis of small and medium-sized vessels. Pituitary involvement in WG is rare with only 22 previous case reports in the English medical literature between 1966 and 2006. Herein we report another patient with WG-rela...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Yong TY,Li JY,Amato L,Mahadevan K,Phillips PJ,Coates PS,Coates PT

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the efficacy of Gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery (GKSR) as an adjunctive management modality for patients with drug resistant or intolerant cavernous sinus invasive prolactinomas. Twenty-two patients with cavernous sinus invasive prolactinoma underwent GKSR between 1994 and 2009. Thirteen patients we...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Liu X,Kano H,Kondziolka D,Park KJ,Iyer A,Shin S,Niranjan A,Flickinger JC,Lunsford LD

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apart from the radiologic features regarding size and invasiveness, we had noticed some differences in morphology among types of pituitary adenomas. We conducted this study to verify the differences in radiologic morphology between growth hormone producing pituitary adenomas (GHoma) and nonfunctioning pituitary adenom...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Bakhtiar Y,Hanaya R,Tokimura H,Hirano H,Oyoshi T,Fujio S,Bohara M,Arita K

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A diabetic acromegalic man, not cured after surgery and radiosurgery, received lanreotide i.m. with great clinical and biochemical improvement. He required NPH insulin (76 to 84 units/day) to control his diabetes mellitus. Thirty-six hours after changing to LAR-octreotide (20 mg i.m/month) he presented symptomatic hyp...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Webb SM,Ortega E,Rodríguez-Espinosa J,Mato ME,Corcoy R

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Endogenous Cushing's syndrome (CS) is a rare disease that results from exposure to high levels of cortisol; Cushing's disease (CD) is the most frequent form of CS. Patients with CS suffer from a variety of comorbidities that increase the risk of mortality. Surgical resection of the disease-causing lesion is gen...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Fleseriu M,Castinetti F

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Secondary empty sella syndrome (SESS) following pituitary surgery remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. The aim of this study was to specify the diagnostic criteria, surgical indications and results of chiasmapexy in the SESS. METHODS:Three cases from two experienced neurosurgical centers were collec...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Graillon T,Passeri T,Boucekine M,Meyer M,Abritti R,Bernat AL,Labidi M,Dufour H,Froelich S

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) signals via G protein-coupled receptors (GHRH-R) to enhance intracellular Galphas/adenylyl cyclase/cAMP signaling, which in turn has positive effects on GH synthesis and release, as well as proliferation of the GH-producing cells of the anterior pituitary gland. Some GH-producin...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Kim E,Sohn S,Lee M,Park C,Jung J,Park S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Octreotide causes significant tumour shrinkage in patients with acromegaly but the exact mechanism of action is unclear in vivo. OBJECTIVE:To determine the mechanism of action of octreotide in vivo using dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI). DESIGN:Five patients with acromegaly were ...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Sathyapalan T,Lowry M,Turnbull LW,Rowland-Hill C,Atkin SL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this case report we describe a 38 year-old-female with galactorrhea several months after the birth of an anencephalic child. She had hyperpolactemia and imaging of the pituitary gland revealed a midline defect and a nasopharyngeal mass compatible with a meningo-(hypophyso-) encephalocele and possibly an ectopic ter...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Rabelink NM,Lips P,Castelijns JA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically inapparent adrenal masses, or adrenal incidentalomas, are discovered inadvertently in the course of workup or treatment of unrelated disorders. Cortical adenoma is the most frequent type of adrenal incidentaloma accounting for approximately 50% of cases in surgical series and even greater shares in medical ...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Terzolo M,Reimondo G,Bovio S,Angeli A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Recent guidelines suggest that a single prolactin measurement is adequate to confirm hyperprolactinaemia. This may lead to unnecessary investigation of artefactual hyperprolactinaemia. Prolactin measurement drawn from an indwelling cannula after rest removes stress as a confounding variable. The objective was t...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Whyte MB,Pramodh S,Srikugan L,Gilbert JA,Miell JP,Sherwood RA,McGregor AM,Aylwin SJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 59-year-old acromegalic woman, who presented with generalized bone pain, weakness, fatigue and foamy urine, who was found to have multiple myeloma (MM); and a 60-year-old acromegalic woman with dizziness, vomiting and abdominal pain, high blood pressure and splenomegaly that was posteriorly diagnosed as ha...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Barbosa FR,Vieira Neto L,Lima GA,Wildemberg LE,Portugal R,Gadelha MR

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Lymphocytic hypophysitis (LH) is a rare chronic inflammatory disorder characterized by lymphocytic infiltration of the pituitary gland commonly affecting women during pregnancy or post-partum period. The pathogenesis remains uncertain, however an autoimmune process is frequently implicated. There is limited d...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Lim S,Elston MS,Swarbrick MJ,Conaglen JV

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of pituitary radiotherapy (RT) in the management of clinically non-functioning pituitary tumors (NFTs) remains controversial. Observational studies suggest that RT is effective in preventing the regrowth of NFT remnants following initial surgical debulking. However, not all tumor remnants will regrow in the a...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Gittoes NJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cushing's Syndrome (CS) is associated with an increased mortality, where hypercoagulability seems to have a crucial role in both arterial and venous thrombosis. Parameters of in vitro thrombin generation (TG) such as lag time, peak thrombin and endogenous thrombin potential (ETP), that describe the time until thrombin...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Koutroumpi S,Spiezia L,Albiger N,Barbot M,Bon M,Maggiolo S,Gavasso S,Simioni P,Frigo A,Mantero F,Scaroni C

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cushing's disease, i.e., pituitary ACTH-secreting adenoma causing excess glucocorticoid secretion, is a rare disease with significant mortality and morbidity. Timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment can alter the course of the disease and are therefore mandatory. First step of the diagnostic work-up is the endogeno...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： De Martin M,Pecori Giraldi F,Cavagnini F

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high incidence of venous thromboembolic (VTE) complications has been reported in Cushing's syndrome (CS), mostly post-operatively and attributable to hypercoagulability. The prevalence of symptomatic VTE was investigated retrospectively in 58 consecutive CS patients in relation to acquired and genetic thrombotic ris...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Koutroumpi S,Daidone V,Sartori MT,Cattini MG,Albiger NM,Occhi G,Ferasin S,Frigo A,Mantero F,Casonato A,Scaroni C

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adequate ADH secretion, adrenal and thyroid functions are vital during the acute and post-acute phases of TBI. Deficiencies of these functions as a result of TBI are increasingly recognized. During the acute phase of TBI the incidence of severe DI is 2.9%; the incidence of less severe forms of DI is 21.6-26%. The deve...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Tsagarakis S,Tzanela M,Dimopoulou I

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cystic prolactinoma is a variant of prolactin-secreting pituitary adenoma. The strategies for the management of cystic prolactinoma have not been addressed thoroughly in clinical guidelines. METHODS:A literature search was performed using Pubmed to review the current approaches to the treatment of cystic ...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Nakhleh A,Shehadeh N,Hochberg I,Zloczower M,Zolotov S,Taher R,Daoud Naccache D

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although the effectiveness of gamma knife radiosurgery (GKRS) in controlling the size of pituitary adenomas has been well demonstrated in many studies, the time period in which significant changes in tumor size occurs has been investigated in a limited fashion. It is important to determine the therapeutic wi...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Mak HK,Lai SW,Qian W,Xu S,Tong E,Vance ML,Oldfield E,Jane J Jr,Sheehan J,Yau KK,Wintermark M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:There has been growing interest on medical therapy for the management of Cushing's disease (CD), particularly in cases of persistent or recurrent hypercortisolism. Ketoconazole, an inhibitor of adrenal steroidogenesis, is the most widely used drug, whereas cabergoline and pasireotide are the most promising...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Vilar L,Naves LA,Machado MC,Bronstein MD

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Published data on the effects of androgen deficiency and testosterone administration on body composition in men and women are reviewed. In experimental paradigms, androgen deprivation decreases lean body mass and increases fat mass in men, and physiologic replacement reverses these abnormalities. The anabolic effects ...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Miller KK

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin is a key mediator in the maintenance of neuroendocrine homeostasis. The aim of this study was to determine the changes in serum leptin, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), interleukin-6 (IL-6), nitric oxide (NO) levels in patients with hyperprolactinemia. The study consists of 16 consecutive patients with ...

journal_title：Pituitary

authors： Balci H,Akgun-Dar K,Gazioglu N,Kapucu A,Bolayirli M,Oz B

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00