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Twenty-four-hour prolactin secretory patterns in women with galactorrhea, normal menses, normal random prolacting levels and abnormal sellar tomograms.

Abstract：

:During a systematic study of women with idiopathic galactorrhea, we observed several patients with normal random serum prolactin (PRL) levels and normal menses, but abnormal sellar tomograms characteristic of a pituitary adenoma. To test the hypothesis that these women might have intermittent PRL hypersecretion, we studied PRL secretion by sampling blood every half hour for 24 h in 10 patients and for 17.5 h in another, and compared the findings to those of a group of 5 normal women. The mean 24-h PRL of the 10 patients (16.8 +/- 7.8 ng/ml; mean +/- SD) was not significantly different from that of the normal women (13.6 +/- 3.2 ng/ml), and each patient showed a normal sleep-associated PRL increment. Three individuals exhibited an abnormally elevated 24-h PRL (greater than 20 ng/ml). Increased PRL secretion occurred primarily at night or in the afternoon. Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) administration caused normal or exaggerated PRL responses in all patients tested. High resolution CT scanning of two of the hypersecretors suggested a microadenoma in one case. In another case whose PRL was normal over 17.5 h, transsphenoidal surgery, carried out because of the tomographic findings and the symptom of headaches, demonstrated a 5-mm chromophobe adenoma that did not contain PRL by immunohistochemistry. Postoperatively the galactorrhea persisted. We conclude that most women with galactorrhea, normal PRL, normal menses, and abnormal tomograms have normal PRL secretion. However, a minority of patients with this syndrome do demonstrate intermittent PRL hypersecretion. The etiology of intermittent PRL hypersecretion and its relevance to galactorrhea have not been determined.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

journal_name

J Endocrinol Invest

journal_title

Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors

Kapcala LP,Molitch ME,Arno J,King LW,Reichlin S,Wolpert SM

doi

10.1007/BF03348450

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1984-10-01 00:00:00

pages

455-60

issue

eissn

0391-4097

issn

1720-8386

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Twenty-four-hour prolactin secretory patterns in women with galactorrhea, normal menses, normal random prolacting levels and abnormal sellar tomograms.