Chromophobe pituitary adenoma

Medicine examines and studies the reasons why chromophobe pituitary adenoma arises and progresses. This is a disease whose causes are unknown.

Symptoms

If such a neoplasm develops, the person is exposed to various symptoms, on the one hand, such as:

• X-ray;
• ophthalmological;
• neurological.

On the other hand, symptoms such as endocrine system disorders. Doctors note that in most cases, chromophobe pituitary adenoma passes without detecting any symptoms. This disease can be discovered by chance. Disorders of the endocrine system manifest themselves in insufficiency of the reproductive and adrenal glands. It is also possible that the result of deficiency may be a decrease in certain hormones. This can happen in cases where compression or destruction of the cells of the basophilic anterior pituitary gland occurs.

This disease can begin its development from thirty to fifty years. In the early stages of the disease, one of the main symptoms is sexual dysfunction. In females, this disorder may manifest itself as a disorder of the menstrual cycle. It even happens that menstruation stops immediately. In the male half it can manifest itself as a decrease in potency and libido.

Symptoms also include:

• Pale skin, sometimes yellowish;
• Obesity;
• Hair growth (in men);
• Increased blood cholesterol;
• Fatigue;
• Decrease in electrolyte levels.

Basophilic pituitary adenoma

One of the common neoplasms in the cranial cavity is basophilic pituitary adenoma. The causes of this disease have never been discovered, only factors have been identified.

These include infectious processes in the brain of the head; there may also be traumatic brain injury or a genetic predisposition. The symptoms of this disease directly depend on the location of the tumor in the pituitary gland. This disease can affect the female population more often than the male population. Such adenoma can occur from thirty to fifty years. One of the main symptoms is Itsenko-Cushing's disease. This disease is a disease of the endocrine system; it develops against the background of the production of excess adrenocorticotropic hormone. This hormone is responsible for the functioning of the adrenal glands. If the body begins to experience an excess of this hormone, then the adrenal glands begin to work harder and, as a result, increase in size, which becomes the cause of Cushing’s disease.

Most patients begin to experience uneven obesity. This is the formation of fat deposits only in the neck, abdomen, chest and face, while the legs and arms remain thin.

Eosinophilic pituitary adenoma

Eosinophilic pituitary adenoma accounts for thirteen percent of all pituitary neoplasms. This disease develops very slowly and does not metastasize. The pressure of the neoplasm provokes erosion of the walls and their expansion occurs from the inside. If the neoplasm begins to rise higher than the diaphragm of the sella, then compression of the optic nerve occurs, and then vision begins to deteriorate.

If the disease progresses, bitemporal hemianopsia occurs, followed by loss of vision up to blindness, and headaches are also present.

Hypersecretion of growth hormones has a huge impact on the body's ability to lower glucose in muscle tissue. If the glucose load is normal, then the level of growth hormone decreases. If the concentration of growth hormone is absent, then this is considered as a sign that proves that an active stage of acromegaly is present.