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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2022

Cabergoline Failure and a Spontaneous Pregnancy in a Microprolactinoma with High Prolactin Levels.

Andrei Adrian Tica, Daniela Dumitrescu, Irina Tica, Corina Neamţu, Vlad Iustin Tica, Cristiana Iulia Dumitrescu, Oana Sorina Tica

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andrei Adrian TicaDepartment of Pharamacology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 200349 Craiova, Romania.
Daniela DumitrescuDepartment of Radiology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 200349 Craiova, Romania.
Irina TicaIIIrd Medical Department, Faculty of Medicine, University "Ovidius" of Constanţa, 900470 Constanţa, Romania.
Corina NeamţuColumna Medical Center, 021522 Bucharest, Romania.
Vlad Iustin TicaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University "Ovidius" of Constanţa, 900470 Constanţa, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-9000-4731
Cristiana Iulia DumitrescuDepartment of Pharamacology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 200349 Craiova, Romania.
Oana Sorina TicaDepartment "Mother and Child", University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 200349 Craiova, Romania.
University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova · ROOvidius University · RO

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a particular case of a spontaneously occurring pregnancy in a long-term amenorrheic patient due to a prolactinoma with high serum prolactin (PRL) following the failure of dopamine agonist therapy (DA) for infertility. Initially, clinical, laboratory, and genital ultrasounds were normal, but the serum PRL was 10,074 μIU/mL (n.v.: 127−637 μIU/mL), the PEG fraction was 71% (laboratory cut-off > 60%), and luteinizing hormone (LH) was significantly lower. An MRI revealed a pituitary tumor of 12.8/10 mm with a subacute intratumoral hemorrhage. DA was initiated, and menstrual bleeding reappeared with a reduction in the tumor’s volume to 1.9/2.2 mm at 12 months. Two years later, the patient renounced DA and follow-ups. After another 2 years, she became spontaneously pregnant. Serum PRL was 18,325 μIU/mL, and an MRI revealed a microprolactinoma of 2.1/2 mm. The patient gave birth to a normal baby at term, and she breastfed for six months, after which she asked for ablactation, and DA was administered. This case highlights the possibility of the occurrence of a normal pregnancy during a long period of amenorrhea induced by a microprolactinoma with a high level of serum PRL, even if DA fails to correct infertility. There was no compulsory relationship between the tumoral volume’s evolution and the evolution of its lactophore activity. The hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism induced by high PRL was mainly manifested by low LH, and in this situation, normal levels of FSH and estradiol do not always induce follicle recruitment and development without abnormalities in the ovary ultrasound.

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cabergolinedopamine agonist therapy (DA)estradiolFSHGnRHLHpregnancyprolactinprolactinoma

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PMID36556282
PMCPMC9780970
OpenAlexW4311366967

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