Developed diplopia due to a pituitary macroadenoma during pregnancy.
Pan Afr Med J
; 29: 39, 2018.
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ABSTRACT
Physiologic pituitary enlargement is common during normal pregnancy. However, symptoms such as diplopia, blurred vision and headache resulting from physiologic pituitary enlargement are very rare during pregnancy. A 43-year-old woman complained of sudden headache and left eye ptosis at 36th weeks of gestation. An magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated the pituitary enlargement and a macroadenoma without a compressing of the optic chiasm, but with an extension to the left cavernous sinus. 48 hours after the prescription of the bromocriptine, we had a spectacular evolution with disappearance of the headache and a total regression of the ptosis. We report a case of visual loss due to the physiologic pituitary enlargement or to the macroadenoma during pregnancy, which regressed after the prescription of bromocroptine.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Neoplasias Hipofisarias
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Complicaciones Neoplásicas del Embarazo
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Adenoma
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Diplopía
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
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En
Revista:
Pan Afr Med J
Año:
2018
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Article
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