Open AccessINFLUENCE OF PITUITARY APOPLEXY ON THE CLINICAL COURSE AND RESULTS OF TREATMENT OF CUSHING’S DISEASE
Author(s) -
Olena Danevych,
Nikolay Guk,
Dmytro S. Teslenko
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
problemi endokrinnoï patologìï
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2518-1432
pISSN - 2227-4782
DOI - 10.21856/j-pep.2014.3.09
Subject(s) - pituitary apoplexy , cushing's disease , medicine , disease , adrenocorticotropic hormone , stage (stratigraphy) , stroke (engine) , surgery , pathology , hormone , pituitary adenoma , adenoma , mechanical engineering , paleontology , engineering , biology
It was present a synthesis of clinical experience of three rare cases of stroke-flow of Cushing’s disease, which has become possible with the surgical treatment of a large series of patients with this pathology. It was shown that a variant of the disease with hemorrhage into the tumor is possible only at the stage of the macroadenoma. Pituitary apoplexy had a positive influence on the nearest (lower levels of adrenocorticotropic hormone and cortisol) and long-term (persistent achievement of clinical and laboratory remission under the observation of more than 12 months) outcomes