Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: We conducted this study to determine the prevalence and incidence of pituitary tumors in South Korea.Methods: This is a nationwide population- based retrospective study. We analysed two national databases, the Korean National Health Insurance (NHI) claims database and Rare Intractable Disease (RID) registration database, which include information on every patients with pituitary tumor diagnosed through uniform criteria from 2009 to 2013. Pituita...

Objectives: Prolactin (PRL) normalization after 3 months of Cabergoline (CAB) treatment are useful predictors of responsiveness in patients with prolactinoma. However, differences within the PRL normalization cut-off value have not been identified.Methods: We reviewed the medical records of patients with prolactinomas who were treated with CAB as a primary drug at Severance Hospital. We included patients who had a full dataset of pituitary hormone assays...

Silent corticotroph adenomas (SCAs) are difficult to distinguish from other non-functioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs) preoperatively. This study assessed the preoperative clinical parameters associated with SCAs. After excluding patients with increased 24-h urinary free cortisol, 341 patients who underwent surgery for NFPAs during 2011–2016 with available preoperative combined pituitary function test (CPFT) and immunohistochemical staining results were enrolled. The pati...