Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: The prevalence of pathological bone densities in men and women with prolactinomas treated either primary surgically or medically are infrequently reported across large cohorts. In the present study, we aimed at comparing the impact of either therapeutic approach on the bone density in men vs women with prolactinomas.Methods: Retrospective case-note study including all consecutive patients with prolactinomas in whom osteodensitometry data was ava...

Background: Medical therapy with dopamine agonists (DA) is the primary treatment in most patients with prolactinomas. ‘Classical’ surgical indications are mainly intolerance of DA therapy or non-responders. Focusing on a possible shift of recent indications towards a surgical approach, we retrospectively analyzed the long-term results of surgical treatment and compared them to the medically treated female patients with prolactinomas.Patients an...

Background: In contrast to females with prolactinoma, male patients usually present with a history of long-standing hypogonadism and a macroadenoma on MRI-scan. Data is scarce about the effect of hypogonadism on bone health in these patients. We, therefore, investigated retrospectively the cohort of male patients with prolactinoma at our institution.Patients and methods: Between 1983 and 2007, the chards of 44 male patients with prolactinoma were reviewe...