Late symptoms of pituitary adenoma?

summary

Pituitary adenoma is one of the main causes of headache. The etiology of pituitary adenoma is relatively complex. The clinical research on its etiology has never stopped. Some patients have no obvious symptoms in the early stage, and the pituitary adenoma detected is already in the late stage. So, the late symptoms of pituitary adenoma?, Let's have a look.

Late symptoms of pituitary adenoma?

1. Hormone changes: various types of secretory adenomas can secrete too much hormone, which can produce different symptoms of hyperendocrinism in the early stage. Non secretory adenoma can compress and destroy the anterior pituitary cells, resulting in the decrease of hormone stimulating hormone and the decrease of target cell function. A few cases of endocrine adenoma may also have hypopituitarism in the late stage of the disease.

2. Proximate symptoms: pituitary adenoma grows out of sella and oppresses adjacent structures. Optic nerve compression symptoms: pituitary adenoma growing upward can make the top of the sellar septum high or break through the sellar septum to press the optic nerve upward, resulting in changes in vision and visual field.

3. Headache: about 2 / 3 patients without secretory pituitary tumor may have headache, but it is not too serious. Diffuse headache can be caused by the increase of intracranial pressure caused by the obstruction of interventricular foramen. Sometimes, hemorrhage in tumor or rupture of tumor cyst can cause acute severe headache.

matters needing attention

We should not ignore the emergence of pituitary tumor, which is a common disease, and in daily life, many patients will have a headache, which seriously affects the health of patients, usually we need to pay attention to this situation, to avoid causing optic nerve compression, leading to blindness, which has great harmful consequences, affecting physical and mental health.