Pituitary adenomas cause eye symptoms

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Pituitary adenoma is actually a very harmful disease, when a healthy person has this pituitary adenoma, it is often very painful. When patients have this disease, then 70% of patients with pituitary adenomas often have excessive endocrine hormone performance. At this time, female patients with pituitary adenomas are often amenorrhea - galactorrhea symptoms. Even the patient has pituitary hyperthyroidism. My eyes are popping out. Active treatment is needed. Does pituitary tumor cause eye symptom? Let's talk about it

Pituitary adenomas cause eye symptoms

Patients with pituitary adenomas often show ocular symptoms, usually optic nerve and optic chiasm, and optic nerve compression. Often easy to cause vision loss, some patients will appear visual field defect, often also appear fundus change, is more serious.

There are pituitary tumor patients in daily life, we must distinguish this disease from some other diseases, early patients can be treated by drugs, using dopamine agonists can better control the volume of our tumor.

Pituitary tumor patients after surgery, usually must pay more attention to rest, and in peacetime must prevent the occurrence of rhinorrhea, and in peacetime after surgery must eat more liquid food, and usually had better not often speak, after this thing must pay attention to rest.

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Patients with pituitary tumor after surgery can also be adjuvant drug therapy radiotherapy, and pituitary tumor surgery is a certain risk, because there are optic nerve, hypothalamus and internal carotid artery around.