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Infertility in Patients With Hyperprolactinemia From a Pituitary AdenomaEffect of Transsphenoidal Pituitary Adenectomy
Loren I. Dolman, MD;
Theodore S. Roberts, MD;
A. Marsh Poulson, Jr, MD;
Frank H. Tyler, MD
Arch Intern Med. 1977;137(9):1161-1164.
Abstract
Four patients with infertility caused by a prolactin-secreting pituitary adenoma underwent transsphenoidal pituitary adenectomy. Preoperatively, in three patients prolactin level was elevated and gonadotropin levels were depressed. In one patient, prolactin level was elevated, and gonadotropin levels were normal, although no rise in gonadotropin levels was noted after clomiphene citrate therapy. In another patient growth hormone level was elevated. Pituitary function was otherwise normal in all patients. The patients underwent transsphenoidal pituitary adenectomy and postoperatively the first three showed normal prolactin and growth hormone levels. The fourth has not yet been reevaluated. Spontaneous pregnancy occurred in all four patients without manipulation shortly after surgery. We suggest that transsphenoidal pituitary adenectomy is a successful and low-risk approach to infertility secondary to prolactin-secreting pituitary adenomata.
(Arch Intern Med 137:1161-1164, 1977)
Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Surgery (Dr Roberts) and Internal Medicine (Drs Dolman and Tyler), Divisions of Metabolism and Neurosurgery, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Dr Poulson), University of Utah College of Medicine, Salt Lake City.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 13, 1976.
Reprint request to Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Medical Center, 50 N Medical Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84132 (Dr Tyler).
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