Plasma prolactin levels in the inferior petrosal sinuses in various pituitary disorders during perihypophyseal phlebography

Gaetano Lombardi; Bartolomeo Merola; Paolo Miletto; Annamaria Colao; Giovanni de Chiara; Vittorio Iaccarino; Renato Spaziante; Gianfranco Di Renzo; Maurizio Taglialatela; Lucio Annunziato

doi:10.1159/000124841

Plasma prolactin levels in the inferior petrosal sinuses in various pituitary disorders during perihypophyseal phlebography

Gaetano Lombardi, Bartolomeo Merola, Paolo Miletto, Annamaria Colao, Giovanni de Chiara, Vittorio Iaccarino, Renato Spaziante, Gianfranco Di Renzo, Maurizio Taglialatela, Lucio Annunziato

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Abstract

The use of intercavernous sinus phlebography for the diagnosis and neurosurgical treatment of pituitary adenomas has enabled the collection of selective venous samplings of the inferior petrosal sinuses (I PSs), where prolactin (PRL) levels can be measured before the hormone becomes excessively diluted in the systemic circulation. In the present study, plasma PRL levels were studied in the right and/or left I PS and, simultaneously, in the peripheral circulation of: (l)normoprolactine-mic patients affected with various pituitary disorders which required phlebographic procedures; (2) hyperprolactinemic patients with negative radiological and computed tomographic (CT) signs of pituitary adenomas and (3 (adenomatous hyperprolactinemic patients. In the 17 normoprolactinemic patients, the plasma PRL concentration in the I PSs was significantly higher (3.5 times; p

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	333-338
Number of pages	6
Journal	Neuroendocrinology
Volume	46
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1159/000124841
Publication status	Published - 1987

Keywords

Inferior petrosal sinuses
Phlebography
Pituitary disorders
Prolactin

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Endocrinology
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
Neuroscience(all)

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