Dear Editor, Sepsis and meningitis due to group B streptococcus (GBS) predominantly occur in the first week of life. However, such invasive infections have been increasing among adults, especially in patients with underlying medical conditions.1,2 Here, we present the first documented case of GBS meningitis as the initial clinical manifestation of recurrent pituitary adenoma. A 55-year-old woma...

Este trabalho visa enfatizar o papel da politomografia como meio diagnóstico do prolactinoma, apresentando cinco casos diagnosticados por este método, mostrando os principais achados radiológicos e aspectos clinicolaboratoriais doença, assim a evolução dos pacientes apresentados.

BACKGROUND/AIM Increasing evidence is available about the role of prolactin in the development of various cancers. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the frequency of thyroid cancer in patients with prolactinoma followed at a single site. MATERIALS AND METHODS The medical records of 182 patients diagnosed with prolactinoma were reviewed retrospectively. Serum prolactin, antithyroglobuli...

Two spontaneous prolactinomas, removed from 28-mo-old female Wis tar/Furth rats, were grafted by serial passages under the kidney capsule and the skin in 117 females of the same consanguineous strain. The hosts, aged between 2 and 10 mo, were free of estrogen treatment. These transplantable tumors, named SMtTW, and SMtTW2, were studied until the fifth serial passage. The percentage of success w...

Two spontaneous prolactinomas, removed from 28-mo-old female Wistar/Furth rats, were grafted by serial passages under the kidney capsule and the skin in 117 females of the same consanguineous strain. The hosts, aged between 2 and 10 mo, were free of estrogen treatment. These transplantable tumors, named SMtTW1 and SMtTW2, were studied until the fifth serial passage. The percentage of success wa...

A total of 184 cases of surgically treated male prolactinoma were analyzed retrospectively to summarize the outcome of this surgical intervention. We analyzed the general characteristics, clinical manifestations, hormone levels, imaging features, preoperative treatments, surgical outcomes, pathology results, and follow-up records for all included patients. The most common clinical manifestation...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to evaluate two methods of macroprolactin (MaPRL) detection - precipitation with polyethylene glycol (PEG) and ultrafiltration and to compare these techniques with "gold standard" - gel filtration chromatography (GFC). MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was conducted on 245 patients - 45 with organic and 200 with functional hyperprolactinaemia. In all the sub...