Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Transsphenoidal surgery (TS) is used for pituitary and suprasellar tumors. It has a risk of damaging the pituitary axis and developing hypocortisolism, a potential life threating risk.Objetive: Incidence of hypocortisolism after TS, postsurgery cortisol (PSC) levels that predict hypocortisolism and potential risk factors for hypocortisolism after TS.Methods: Prospective study in patients who underwent TS in 2016. Gluc...

Introduction: Endonasal endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery (EETS) for a sellar or suprasellar mass poses potential complications, including transient or permanent hypopituitarism. Adrenocortical insufficiency is especially worrisome given its potentially life-threatening course, if untreated. Usual clinical practice includes administration of perioperative “stress doses” of steroids followed by long term steroid replacement until the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal ax...

Aim: Evaluate the predictive value of the Pituitary Apoplexy Score (PAS) for predicting hormonal and visual recovery after surgery or conservative management of patients with pituitary apoplexy (PA).Methods: Multicenter retrospective study of patients presenting with clinical PA in three Spanish tertiary hospitals between 2008 and 2022. The PAS was calculated following the UK Pituitary Apoplexy Guidelines Development Group evaluation grid.<p class="a...