Is it serious to have a pituitary tumor

In recent years, pituitary tumors have become more and more well-known to people, and their incidence has remained high in recent years, causing many people to feel quite panicked when they hear about pituitary tumors. So is it serious to have a pituitary tumor? Is it curable? These are questions that most people want to know. Let me explain to you the question of whether a pituitary tumor is serious.

Most patients with pituitary tumors are women. Many patients have asked during the treatment process whether pituitary tumors are serious. In this regard, clinical statistics show that pituitary tumors can affect the fertility of female patients, and affect the patient's vision, and even cause blindness. Therefore, pituitary tumors are relatively serious. Is pituitary tumor serious? In order to attract the attention of patients, the following introduction is made for everyone:

1. In clinical practice, it is found that many women of childbearing age go to the gynecology department for infertility examinations. It is found that the inability to get pregnant is not caused by gynecological reasons, but by problems with the pituitary gland. From the blood test items, namely the six hormone test reports, it is found that the serum prolactin values ​​of these pituitary tumor patients who cannot get pregnant are much higher than those of normal people. This is what is commonly called hyperprolactinemia in clinical practice. High prolactin can affect ovarian function and further affect ovulation; high prolactin acts on the pituitary gland and can affect the secretion of gonadotropin. These factors become a stumbling block for whether women of childbearing age can give birth.

2. In addition to affecting fertility, pituitary tumors can also affect vision and may even cause blindness. From the human anatomy, it is found that the pituitary gland is relatively close to structures such as the optic chiasm and optic nerve. When the pituitary tumor grows to a certain size, it will quickly compress the optic chiasm and optic nerve. Therefore, some patients in the clinic also seek medical treatment with vision and visual field impairment as the first symptom.

3. It is worth noting that patients with pituitary tumors often have symptoms of increased intracranial pressure, such as headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, etc. Some patients may have acromegaly due to abnormal hormone secretion, which affects their appearance or may cause patients to be unable to cope with their lives, resulting in a series of life, psychological, and social problems. For some male patients with pituitary tumors, they may experience sexual dysfunction and go to the andrology department for treatment.

4. Many patients with pituitary tumors will experience decreased vision and other symptoms. Since there is no obvious visual field loss in the early stage, it is often mistaken for myopia (if it is middle-aged or elderly, it is mistaken for presbyopia). For some younger patients with pituitary tumors, due to excessive secretion of growth hormone, their body shape and height do not match their age, but some parents often mistakenly believe that it is caused by nutritional problems, which prolongs the course of the disease.

Based on the detailed explanation above, you can understand that pituitary tumors can cause serious harm to patients. Therefore, once symptoms of pituitary tumors appear, you should go to a regular hospital for scientific and effective treatment in time. Here we remind patients not to use treatment measures blindly, so as to avoid further aggravation of the disease.