373 Ant Pituitary Flashcards
Chapter 373. Anterior Pituitary Tumor Syndromes
Common features of small intrasellar tumors with no demonstrable suprasellar extension
Headaches
Desired approach to pituitary tumors
Transsphenoidal resection
Characterized by episodic attack of rectal temperatures less than 30 degrees Centigrade, sweating, vasodilation, vomiting bradycardia
Periodic hypothermia syndrome
Benign suprasellar cystic masses that present with headaches, visual field deficits, variable degrees of hypopituitarism; derived from Rathke’s pouch and arise near the pituitary stalk
Craniopharyngiomas
Hypothalamic hamatomas associated with craniofacial abnormalities; imperforate anus, cardiac, renal and lung disorders, pituitary failure; caused by mutation in carbxy terminus of GLI3 gene
Pallister- Hall syndrome
Autosomal dominant syndrome characterized by a genetic predisposition to Parathyroid, pancreatic islet, and pituitary adenoma caused by I activating mutations in MENIN found on chromosome 11q13
MEN 1
Characterized by spotty skin pigmentation, myxomas, endocrine tumors associated with mutation in R1 alpha subunits of protein kinase A (PRKAR1A)
Carneys syndrome
Consist of variety of endocrine disorders, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, pigmented skin patches that results from constitutive cyclic AMP production causes by GTPase activity of Gsa
McCune- Albright syndrome
Most common pituitary hormone hypersecretion hormone
Hyperprolactinemia
Important physiologic causes of hyperprolactinemia
Pregnancy and lactation
Can Increase PRL secretion
Nipple stimulation
Sexual orgasm
Hallmarks of hyperprolacrinemia in women
Amenorrhea
Galactorrhea
Infertility
Hallmarks of hyperprolacrinemia in males
Diminished libido
Infertility
Visual loss
Effective for most cases of hyperprolactinemia
Dopamine agonist
True or false. Dopamine agonist may worsen underlying psychiatric condition
True
Main stay therapy for prolactinomas
Oral dopamine agonist (bromocriptine and cabergoline)
Ergoline derivative; long acting dopamine agonist with high affinity to D2 receptor affinity
Cabergoline
Ergot akaloid dopamine receptor agonist that suppresses prolactin secretion
Bromocriptine
Most common cuss of GHRH mediated acromegaly
Chest or abdominal carcinoid tumor
Most significant clinical impact of GH excess
Cardiovascular system
Initial treatment for acromegaly? Adjuvant?
Initial: Surgical resection
Adjuvant: somatostatin analogue
After surgery, when does GH levels return to normal? IGF-1?
GH: normalize in one hour
IGF-1: normalize in 3-5 days
True or false. Irradiation is effective in normalizing IGF-1 levels
False. Irradiation is ineffective
Preferred medical treatment for acromegaly
Somatostatin analogues: octreotide and lanreotide
Eight-amino-acid synthetic somatostatin analogues that as 40x potency than native somatostatin. What is its half life
Octreotide. Half life: 2 hours
Autogek slow release depot preparation of cyclic somastostatin octapeptide analogue that suppresses GH and IGF-1 hypersecretion
Lanreotide
Side effect of octreotide
Postprandial gallbladder hypomotility and delays gallbladder emptying
Antagonizes endogenius GH action by blocking peripheral GH binding to its receptor
Pegvisomant
Most common cause of cushingoid features
Iatrogenic hypercortisolism
Precise and cost effective screening test for Cushings syndrome
24 hour urine free cortisol
How to differentiate ACTH secreting pituitary tumor be ectopic ACTH secretion
Hypokalemia in Ectopic ACTH secretion
Dexamethasone 2 mg higb dose suppression test
-ectopic cortisol more than 5 ug/L
-ACTH secreting tumor cortisol less than 5 ug/L
Somatostatin analogue with high affinity for SST5 than SST2 recpetos and approved for treating patients wiht ACTH secreting pituitary tumor
Pasireotide
Imidazole derivative antimycotic agent inhibits several P450 enzymes and effectivelu lowers cortisol in most patient with Cushing syndrome?
Ketoconazole
Glucocorticoid receptor antagonist blocks peripheral cortisol action and approve for treatment of hyperglycemia in Cushing syndrome
Mifepristone
Inhibits 11 beta hydroxylase activity and normalize plasma cortisol
Metyrapone
Suppresses cortisol hypersecretion by inhibiting 11 beta hydroxylase and cholesterol side chain cleavage enzymes by destroying adrenocortical cells
Mitotane
Disorder characterized by rapid pituitary tumor enlargement and increased pigmentation secondary to high ACTH levels
Nelson’s syndrome
Characteristic that suggest TSH secreting tumor
Presence of pituitary mass and elevated B subunit levels
47/Female suffered Sheehan syndrome. What is the expected laboratory finding?
low ACTH, low TSH, low FT4, low GH, Low FSH, Low LH
refers to intrapituitary hemorrhagic vascular vent that occurs in postpartum women; pituitary apoplexy
Sheehan’s syndrome
what causes sheehan syndrome
due to hyperplastic enlargement of pituitary during pregnancy which increases risk for hemorrhage and infarction
present as the least resistance to soft tissue expansion
dorsal sellar diaphragm
common features of small intrasellar tumors
headache
Features of sellar mass lesion. Identify impacted structure if patient present with hypogonadism, hypothyroidism, growth failure and adult hyposomatoropism, hypoadrenalism
pituitary
Features of sellar mass lesion. Identify impacted structure if patient present with loss of red perception, bitemporal hemianopia, superior or bitemporal field defect, scotoma, blindness
Optic chiasm
Features of sellar mass lesion. Identify impacted structure if patient present with temperature dysregulation, appetite and thirst disorders, obesity, diabetes insipidus, behavioral dysfunction, autonomic dysfunction
hypothalamus
Features of sellar mass lesion. Identify impacted structure if patient present with opthalmoplegia with or without ptosis or diplopa, facial numbness
cavernous sinus
Features of sellar mass lesion. Identify impacted structure if patient present with personality disorder, anosmia
frontal lobe
Features of sellar mass lesion. Identify impacted structure if patient present with headache, hydrocephalus, pychosis, dementia, laughing seizures
brain
pituitary gland height in adults
8 mm
when is the pituitary gland biggest
during pregnancy and puberty and may reach 10-12 mm
presenting clinical features of functional pituitary adenomas
acromegaly, prolactinomas, Cushing syndrome
Initial hormonal evaluation if a pituitary adenoma is suspected based on MRI
5 tests. 1 basal prolactin, 2 insulin like growth factor, 3. 24 hr urinary free cortisol, 4. FSH, LH, 5. thyroid function tests
Characterized by episodic attacks of rectal temperatures less than 30 degrees Celsius or less than 86 degrees Fahrenheit, sweating, vasodilation, vomiting and bradycardia associated with hypothalamic lesion
periodic hypothermia syndrome
damage to this area is associated with hyperphagia and obesity
damage to ventromedial hypothalamic nuclei
damage to this area is associated with polydipsia and hypodipsia
damage to central osmoreceptors located in preoptic nuclei
refers to benign suprasellar cystic masses that present with headache, visual field defects, variable degrees of hypopituitarism; are derived from Rathke’s pouch
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presents with bony clival erosion, local invasiveness and calcification.
Sella chordomas
True or false. Meningioma arising from sellar region may be difficult to distinguish from non functioning pituitary adenomas
True.
Presents with diabetes insipidus, exopthalmus, punched out lytic bone lesions
Hand schuller Christian disease
occurrence of pituitary metastases
3.00%
major cause of pituitary metastases
breast cancer