What are the causes of different types of pituitary tumors

Pituitary tumors are a common tumor disease in recent years, which brings great pain to patients and can even endanger their lives in severe cases. There are many causes of pituitary tumors. Understanding the causes of pituitary tumors plays a very important role in prevention and treatment. Now I will show you the causes of different types of pituitary tumors.

The causes of different types of pituitary tumors are as follows:

1. Thyrotropin-producing adenoma: due to hypothyroidism, the whole body metabolism is slow, which causes the metabolism of estrogen and androgen in the body to decrease with the lack of thyroid hormone.

2. In addition, the causes of pituitary adenomas also include obesity caused by patients with adrenocorticotropic hormone-type and growth hormone-type pituitary tumors, which is also one of the causes of sexual dysfunction.

3. The compression of normal pituitary tissue by pituitary adenoma and the damage caused by radiotherapy cause hypopituitarism, which affects the hypothalamic pituitary-gonadal axis in the human body, resulting in insufficient secretion of gonadotropin, and further leading to hypogonadism.

4. Prolactinoma: symptoms in women include amenorrhea, lactation, and infertility, and in men include impotence and sexual dysfunction. This is related to the fact that hyperprolactinemia inhibits the release of gonadotropin, reduces pituitary responsiveness, and reduces testosterone production.

In the history of endocrinology, there are two different theories about the cause of pituitary adenoma: one theory believes that the basic cause of pituitary adenoma is in the hypothalamus: hypothalamic dysfunction causes excessive production of hypothalamic pituitary-releasing hormone, resulting in continuous and excessive stimulation of pituitary cells, causing corresponding chronic proliferation of pituitary cells, and eventually forming adenoma; the other theory believes that the primary cause of pituitary adenoma is in the pituitary itself: due to intrinsic abnormalities of pituitary cells (such as somatic mutations), they undergo abnormal clonal proliferation and finally form tumors.

Although most pituitary tumors are benign, they can still be life-threatening if they are not treated actively and effectively. Therefore, the treatment of pituitary tumors should not be sloppy and should be timely. I hope everyone will understand this disease as soon as possible, and in daily life, you should pay attention to care methods and comprehensive conditioning. In daily life, everyone needs to pay attention to their own treatment methods. Surgery can be performed to avoid hyperpituitarism. At ordinary times, you should also pay attention to conditioning methods and comprehensive self-care.