Although surgery is often the first line of treatment for pituitary adenomas, there are categories of functional adenomas that may respond well to treatment with medicine that often can shrink the ...

These kinds of tumors include: Acoustic neuromas Brain metastases Gliomas (such as astrocytomas and glioblastomas) Meningiomas Pituitary adenomas Using a multidisciplinary team ... This includes not ...

Transient diabetes insipidus almost always begins within 24-48 h of surgery, and usually abates ... and the nerve terminals in the posterior pituitary, or to axonal shock from perturbations ...

Pituitary tumors are abnormal growths within the pituitary ... For instance, dopamine agonists can reduce prolactin levels in ...

[8] Finally, as a practical consideration, any patient with postoperative diabetes insipidus should be presumed to have anterior pituitary insufficiency as well, and should receive corticosteroid ...

Endocrinology specialist Dr Preethi Dissanayake discusses this uncommon presentation, in the latest in our series on conditions that GPs may only encounter once in their career. Acromegaly is a rare ...

Macroprolactinoma is a type of pituitary tumor that leads to excess production of the hormone prolactin. This type of tumor is larger than a microprolactinoma but smaller than a giant prolactinoma.

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