Endocrine Abstracts

A 31-year-old female patient without previous history of pituitary diseases, at 16 weeks of 4th spontaneous pregnancy complained about severe headache; diplopia and right ptosis developed shortly, nausea and vomiting appeared. Brain MRI showed the mass lesion 30×19×14 mm (frontal×vertical×sagittal) with supra-laterosellar extension, deforming and displacing optic chiasm; signs of pansinusitis, pathological contents of the right mastoid cells, vascular malfo...

Introduction: Hyponatriemia is one of severe postoperative water-electrolyte disturbances. This condition is usually caused by syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone or cerebral salt-wasting syndrome which require different treatment approaches.Case presentation: A 61-year-old woman was referred to tertiary care center with non-functioning pituitary macroadenoma. The patient had been suffering from headaches for 4 later years and had...

Objectives: To evaluate predictors of permanent, transient and three-phase diabetes insipidus (DI) in patients undergoing endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery.Patients and methods: The study included 154 patients undergoing endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery (122 women and 32 men) age from 18 to 65 years (median 40 (31;52)). 73 patients with Cushing disease, 66 patients with acromegaly, four patients with prolactinomas, nine patients wi...

Objective: To assess the levels of osmolality, sodium in blood and urine, and copeptin level in patients after transnasal adenomectomy for pituitary adenomas.Materials and methods: A total of 154 patients, aged 18 to 65 years, were included in this study and underwent transnasal adenomectomy. Surgical treatment was performed in 73 patients with Cushing’s disease, 66 – acromegaly, 4 – prolactinoma, 9 – hormonally inact...