Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hyponatremia is one of the possible complications of pituitary surgery. Mild, asymptomatic hyponatremia can be managed with fluid restriction and oral supplementation, however more profound hyponatremia, especially when symptomatic, can be a reason for hospital readmission and often needs to be treated with saline infusion in ICU.Aims: To estimate prevalence of hyponatremia and provide clinical characteristics in the cohort of patients who ...

Introduction: In the past 10 years, endoscopic resection of pituitary adenomas has become an alternative to microsurgical resection with the additional advantage of increasing the patient’s postoperative comfort. This analysis explored whether endoscopic resection can reduce the risk of postoperative neurohypophyseal dysfunction.Material and methods: We rated and compared the need to administer desmopressin during the first four postoperative days a...

Certain degree of hypopituitarism has been revealed in a significant number of patients who suffered traumatic brain injuries or subarachnoid hemorrhage. Microhemorrhages, necrosis, tissue infarcts and vasoconstriction are reported as mechanism of hypothalamo-pituitary dysfunction. Assessment of hypothalamo-pituitary endocrine functions in patients with chronic subdural hematomas has not been published yet, although dysfunction of hypothalamo-pituitary unit can be expected (he...

Objective: The aim of this study was to quantitatively estimate SSTR2 in clinically non-functioning pituitary adenomas (CNFAs) with use of RNA in-situ hybridization (ISH) and quantitative real-time RT-PCR and correlate the results of both methods.Methods: A standard histological and immunohistochemical examination was performed on the resected pituitary tumour. Afterwards in-situ hybridization for somatostatine 2 receptor (SSTR2) RNA wa...