What is the estimated mortality rate of pituitary tumors?

Having a pituitary tumor is quite painful for patients, which is also related to the patient's living habits. Many patients are worried about whether the mortality rate of pituitary tumors is high or whether there is not much life left. Today we will talk about how high the mortality rate of pituitary tumors is.

The mortality rate of pituitary tumors is related to the severity of the disease. The mortality rate of benign pituitary tumors is not too high and can be cured. There are several types:

1. Psychological comfort: Pituitary tumor is a benign tumor in the brain and surgery is effective. You can return to normal work after recovery.

2. Improve nutrition and eat more fresh, high-protein foods to strengthen your physical fitness and help your body recover soon after illness.

The mortality rate of pituitary tumors with severe pathology is higher. The details are described as follows:

1. Growth hormone cell adenoma: The early tumor is only a few millimeters in size, and the main manifestation is excessive secretion of growth hormone. Minor patients may grow too fast and even develop into giants. After adulthood, it will show acromegaly. Such as facial changes, enlarged forehead, protruding lower jaw, large nose and thick lips, thick fingers, tight shoes and hats, several changes to larger sizes, and even have to be specially made. Some patients also have increased appetite, rough hair and skin, pigmentation, numbness of fingers, etc. Severe patients feel general fatigue, headache and joint pain, sexual dysfunction, amenorrhea and infertility, and even complicated by diabetes.

2. Prolactin cell adenoma: The main symptoms are amenorrhea, galactorrhea, infertility, and in severe cases, loss of armpit hair, pale and delicate skin, increased subcutaneous fat, fatigue, easy fatigue, lethargy, headache, sexual dysfunction, etc. In men, symptoms include loss of libido, impotence, breast hyperplasia, sparse beard, and in severe cases, atrophy of reproductive organs, decreased sperm count, infertility, etc. There are not many cases of male to female changes.

3. ACTH cell adenoma: Clinical manifestations include centripetal obesity, moon face, buffalo hump, sanguineous constitution, purple lines on the skin of the abdomen and thighs, increased vellus hair, etc. In severe cases, patients may suffer from amenorrhea, loss of libido, general fatigue, and even bedriddenness. Some patients also have hypertension and diabetes.

4. Thyroid stimulating hormone cell tumor: rare, due to excessive secretion of pituitary thyroid stimulating hormone, it causes hyperthyroidism symptoms, which disappear after the pituitary tumor is removed. In addition, hypothyroidism feedback causes focal hyperplasia of the pituitary gland, which gradually develops into a pituitary adenoma, which can also cause symptoms of enlarged sella turcica and compression of nearby tissues when it grows up.

5. Follicle-stimulating hormone cell adenoma: It is very rare, with only a few reports of clinical symptoms such as sexual dysfunction, amenorrhea, infertility, and decreased sperm count.

6. Malignant pituitary tumor: short medical history, rapid disease progression. Not only does the tumor grow and compress the pituitary tissue, but it also invades the surrounding areas, causing bone destruction at the sellar floor or infiltration into the cavernous sinus, causing oculomotor nerve paralysis or abducens nerve paralysis.

In order to control the mortality rate of pituitary tumors, patients should eat more protein-rich foods such as fish, meat, eggs, and bean products, and fresh vegetables rich in vitamins in the short term to speed up the body's recovery and avoid an increase in mortality.