[Pituitary apoplexy followed by endocrine remission. Report of two cases]. / Apoplexia pituitária seguida de remissão endócrina. Relato de dois casos.

Pituitary apoplexy is rare and endocrine remission in patients with apopletic secreting pituitary adenomas is even rarer. This study reports on two patients with pituitary macroadenomas (one with Cushing's disease and the other with acromegaly) in whom endocrine remission occurred after apoplexy. The first patient had Cushing's disease and had an ictus of headache and vomiting after which she started a progressive remission of hypercortisolism. A post-apoplexy MRI disclosed persistence of a sellar and supra-sellar mass. She was submitted to transesphenoidal surgery. An hypertensive hemorrhagic cyst was found with no tumor. The second patient had acromegaly. While performing a LHRH-stimulation test he had an ictus of headache, vomiting, no visual loss and appearance of diabetes insipidus. A CT scan disclosed an intrasellar hematoma. Despite the size of the tumor and since there was no visual impairment, this patient was followed up without surgery. Imaging follow-up showed a progressive shrinkage and disappearance of the mass, which was corroborated by endocrine remission. A high rate of recurrence is reported in such patients in the literature. Both patients are being currently followed-up on a long-term basis.

Estimulaçäo alfa-adranérgica na secreçäo de hormônio de crescimento: comparaçäo da clonidina com guanabenz / Cepha adrenergic stimulation in growth hormone secretion: comparison between clonidine and guanabenz

Avaliamos o efeito da administraçäo aguda de clonidina e de guanabenz na secreçäo de hormônio de crescimento (GH0 em nove pacientes com deficiência isolada idiopática de GH (DGH), seis do sexo masculino e três do feminino, e em 15 indivíduos de baixa estatura sem deficiência de GH (CN), 11 do sexo masculino e quatro do feminino. Nesses últimos sob hipoglicemia induzida o pico de GH foi de 11,34 ñ 4,48ng/ml e no teste seqüencial exercício L-DOP o pico foi de 12,97 ñ 3,94ng/ml (Mñep). Sob a a çäo da clonidina e do guanabenz os CN apresentaram picos de GH de 22,07 ñ 3,2 e 19,24 ñ 2,26ng/ml respectivamente. Esses resultados näo foram estatisticamente diferentes daqueles obtidos com os testes clássicos de liberaçäo de GH. Os pacientes com DGH näo respoderam a nenhum dos testes de liberaçäo utilizados. Nossos dados sugerem que ambos agonistas alfa-adrenérgicos säo potentes liberadores de GH, podendo ser utilizados na avaliaçäo da reserva hipofisária