Email this article Gonadotrophic pituitary incidentaloma as the cause premature ovarian insufficiency
- Authors: Repina M.A.1
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- North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov
- Issue: Vol 67, No 1 (2018)
- Pages: 58-64
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/jowd/article/view/8367
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/JOWD67158-64
- ID: 8367
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Objective: evaluate clinical significance pituitary incidentalomas, apparently derived from gonadotropocytes.
Design: follow-up study. Patients. Three observations of pituitary microadenomas in patients whose cause for treatment was prolonged amenorrhea. Diagnosed uterine hypoplasia, decreased ovarian reserve, decreased bone mass. Patients combined expressed psycho-emotional symptoms (depression, neuroticism up to mental disorders in one case). The diagnosis of a gonadotrophic incidentaloma is suspected after exclusion of clinical and laboratory signs of prolactinoma, somatotrophic, corticotrophic and thyrotrophic adenoma.
Results. In two cases, the clinical picture of severe estrogenic failure was combined with high concentrations FSH, LH and low concentrations of anti-mullerian hormone (AMH). The increase in gonadotrophines, obviously, was both a reaction to a decreased production of estrogens, and the result of their hypersecretion by adenoma. In the observed cases there was no development of ovarian cysts, characteristic for patients with gonadotrophic adenomas, which can be explained by a reduced ovarian reserve. In the third case marked initially normal secretion of FSH and LH, not corresponding to a low concentration of sex steroids. Further there was a complete cessation of the secretion of FSH and LH with a simultaneous rapid decrease in the secretion of AMH. Given the small size of adenomas, in all cases selection of tactics for dynamic observation. All patients were prescribed hormone replacement therapy.
Conclusion. For patients with premature ovarian failure, it is advisable to carry out MRI with contrast enhancement to exclude pituitary adenoma.
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Margarita A. Repina
North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov
Author for correspondence.
Email: rectorat@spbmapo.ru
MD, Professor, Department of Reproductive Health of Women
Russian Federation, Saint PetersburgReferences
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