Ann Endocrinol Paris
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Ann Endocrinol Paris · Jan 1984
Review[Role of beta blockers as the only therapy for preparing the hyperthyroid patient for surgery].
Indications and contraindications of the beta blocking drugs are reviewed as a method of preparation to sub total thyroidectomy in thyrotoxicosis. They allow a shorter preparation's time: a few days, until one or two weeks maximum. ⋯ The best beta blocking's criterion is exercise-induced tachycardia's reduction. The safety of this method allows its utilisation when social, medical or psychological environment requires a quick thyrotoxicosis' recovery.
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Ann Endocrinol Paris · May 1976
Case ReportsProlactin regulation in 14 cases of galactorrhea and hypogonadism with minimal modifications of the sella turcica (author's transl).
In this study we report 13 cases of amenorrhea-galactorrhea and one of a male patient complaining of gynecomastia, galactorrhea, sexual impotence and sterility with oligoasthénospermy. In these cases, the size of the sella turcica was normal but we found a localized depression of the bottom of the sella turcica; these modifications were situated at the antero-inferior part of the sella in 12 cases and posteriorly in the 2 others. Basal prolactin level was higher than normal values in 13 cases (12 female and 1 male patients): individual values varied between 45 and 367 ng/ml. ⋯ The increase of prolactin values after stimulation by 200 microg. TRH IV as a bolus (4 cases) was not significant. We have found similar prolactin variations in cases of hyperprolactinemia with either normal pituitary fossa (7 cases) or macro-adenoma (6 cases).
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Ann Endocrinol Paris · Jul 1975
Case Reports[A case of oncocytic adenoma of the pituitary gland with galactorrhea and hyperprolactinemia].
A tumor of hypophysis, with suprasellar expansion, was removed surgically in a 68 years old woman with panhypopituitarism and galactorrhea. Light and electron microscopy studies have shown an oncocytoma. One year after pituitary ablation and cobaltherapy, the patient had normal pituitary functions and galactorrhea had disappeared. Since the prolactin cells were outside the adenoma and the prolactin secretion became normal after surgery, we can assume that galactorrhea was presumably due to the compression of the pituitary stalk by oncocytoma.