Pituitary apoplexy may require emergency surgical intervention; however, sometimes it can be managed more conservatively with medical therapies, particularly corticosteroid replacement if ...

Proper baseline workup should be initiated before referring patients with incidental pituitary adenomas to a specialist. The initial workup includes imaging, blood work to determine if the pituitary ...

The optic chiasm is an X-shaped structure formed by the crossing of the optic nerves in the brain. The optic nerve connects the brain to the eye. To biologists, the optic chiasm is thought to be a ...

The use of OCT-ganglion cell complex analysis may be a more effective way to detect compressive chiasmopathy or optic neuropathy early on, according to findings published in the journal, Pituitary.

A Puerto Rican woman aged 50 years presented to an ophthalmologist with complaints of vision changes, including difficulty seeing images in her peripheral vision in both eyes and difficulty in color ...

Aims To assess the course of visual function after neurosurgical decompression of the optic nerve during resection of intracranial tumours. To obtain information that may be used to counsel patients.

A 68-year-old man was initially examined in the emergency department after sustaining trauma to his head after a fall on ice outside his home. He was on therapeutic anticoagulation treatment for ...

Although surgery is generally considered the first-line treatment for acromegaly, successful outcomes for growth-hormone (GH)-secreting macroadenomas are limited. Primary medical intervention with ...