Gabi Metz did exactly what every woman does when she’s preparing for a family. She stopped taking her birth control and waited for her period to return. Only it didn’t. That’s when she looked to the ...

Correspondence to Dr Aditya S Pandey, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr, Room 3552 TC, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5338, USA; adityap{at}med.umich.edu Aneurysms of ...

Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2006;2(6):298-299. Clearly, dopamine agonists should not be withdrawn too early, and certainly not before completion of 12 months' treatment. Until more is known about ...

Patients with the most common form of tumours affecting the pituitary gland, located at the base of the brain, are more likely to develop impulse control disorders as a side effect of a drug called a ...

Loss of libido and erectile dysfunction (ED) are typically associated with older men, but younger men can also be affected, as illustrated by the case of one patient described by Kai-Philipp Linse, MD ...

The pituitary gland is a pea-sized gland at the base of your brain. It makes several different hormones, including one called prolactin. Prolactin affects the mammary glands and helps women make ...

Giant prolactinomas (GPs) are a rare subtype of lactotroph pituitary neuroendocrine tumors that constitute about 3% of prolactinomas. They measure more than 40 mm and occur predominantly in young men.

A prolactinoma is a benign pituitary tumor that makes the hormone prolactin. While these tumors aren’t life threatening, they can cause fertility challenges and vision problems. Most are treated with ...

Prolactin levels were associated with an increased risk for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among adults without prolactinoma. Serum prolactin level is an independent predictor of mortality ...

Hyperprolactinemia is a medical condition in which excess prolactin is produced. Prolactin is a hormone involved in the production of milk in a woman's breast. Research has also shown that prolactin ...