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Filter by:Hyponatremia is defined as sodium below the normal range of 135-145. Symptomatically, it can cause patients to experience a wide range of symptoms including lethargy, headache, nausea, vomiting and in severe cases coma and even death. The goal of this study is to prospectively compare two approaches to the postoperative fluid management of patients undergoing transsphenoidal resection of a pituitary tumor or cyst to decrease the occurrence of postoperative delayed hyponatremia. One group will be placed on moderate fluid restriction and the other group will be placed on ad lib fluid intake.
To investigate whether MRI is able to predict the exact anatomy and topography of the sphenoid sinus and its relationship to the sellar, parasellar und paraclinoid region and where CT yields more detailed information for the surgeon before trans-sphenoidal pituitary adenoma surgery.
Sellar area tumors such as pituitary adenoma, craniopharyngioma and meningioma, etc, commonly lead to visual impairment symptoms. Patients suffer from a loss of visual acuity (VA) and visual field defects (VF) due to a local compression on the optic chiasma by the tumor. In the management of these patients, it is an important goal to evaluate their visual function throughout the treatment, so as to predict the outcome of the visual function . Since the visual pathway contains a huge complex network of both structure and function, traditional simplex evaluation of VA and VF is obviously not enough. Former studies have revealed changes in the visual network and cortex structure in neurodegenerative diseases and optic neuritis, yet the functional and structural changes caused by local tumor compression and their relation to the visual cortex activity patterns needs further research. The objective of this research is to asses the visual function in patients with sellar area tumor 1 week preoperatively (baseline),72 hours postoperatively(checking point 1) and at 3 months follow up(checkpoint 2). By using multimodal evaluation including visual resting and task state fMRI, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), etc. The investigators aim to reveal the changes in functional connectivity (FC), amplitude of low frequency fluctuation (ALFF), regional homogeneity (REHO) ,visual cortex activity patterns and tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS).
Prospective and randomized compare between microsurgical and endoscopic transsphenoidal MRI assisted resection of pituitary adenomas.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the treatment and natural history of pituitary disease. We have a longstanding interest in pituitary disease including acromegaly, central diabetes insipidus, and nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma. We will continue to follow patients and recruit new patients for treatment and follow-up. Blood and pituitary tumor tissue (when available through clinical care) will be saved for future analyses related to pituitary disease.
Investigators hypothesized that propofol dose for pituitary somatotroph patients might differ from nonfunctioning pituitary tumor, and investigators will evaluate a target controlled infusion (TCI) effect site concentration (Ce) of propofol for BIS score of 40 and LOC (loss of consciousness) in pituitary somatotroph patients in comparison with non functioning pituitary tumor patients. On arrival in the operating room, standard monitoring devices, including electrocardiogram, pulse oximetry, noninvasive blood pressure cuff, and bispectral index (BIS) will be applied to the patients. Propofol with the modified Marsh pharmacokinetic parameters using a keo of 1.2/min will be administered through TCI pump (OrchestraBase Primea, Fresenius Vial, France). The initial target Ce of propofol will be chosen as 3.0 mg/mL (0.5 mg/mL of incremental size) based on an earlier study. The sedation of patients will be assessed with BIS score and the modified observer's assessment of awareness and sedation (OAA/S). LOC was defined as an OAA/S lower than 2 (loss of response to spoken command to eye opening and loss of response to mild prodding or shaking). The primary end point of this study is the Ce of propofol when the BIS score is 40. The secondary end point of this study is the Ce of propofol at LOC.
This study aims to identify new morphological and quantitative magnetic imaging parameters of pituitary gland and sellar region in overweight and obese patient at baseline and after 3 years, dividing patients in 3 groups (weight loss through diet and lifestyle changes, weight loss through bariatric surgery, no weight loss)
The aim of this study is to investigate whether inhibition of serum prolactin levels below normal range during cabergoline administration may reduce the recurrence rate after drug withdrawal in patients with prolactinomas.
In this study, the investigators hypothesize that upfront gamma knife radiosurgery with drug therapy is superior in the treatment of growth hormone-secreting pituitary tumors after primary surgical treatment compared with the drug therapy alone. This study can provide useful clinical information in the treatment of patients with acromegaly.
This is a prospective case-control study to compare the usefulness of 18F-FDG PET/MRI with that of 18F-FDG PET/CT in detection of functioning pituitary microadenomas.A single dose of 370 Mega-Becquerel (MBq) 18F-FDG will be injected intravenously.Visual and semiquantitative method will be used to assess the PET/MRI and PET/CT images.