Cortisol elevation can be combined with elevated blood sugar and blood pressure.
Pituitary tumors are classified into microadenoma, macroadenoma and giant adenoma according to their size, and invasive and non-invasive according to whether they are invasive or not.
Pituitary tumors are almost always benign.
Pituitary tumors that require treatment: 1. Pituitary tumors cause obvious symptoms, such as headache and dizziness, vision loss or endocrine-related symptoms, and are treated to eliminate the symptoms; 2. Tumors have gradually grown, and are treated to prevent the upcoming symptoms. If microadenoma has no obvious symptoms at the same time, it is completely observable without active treatment.
Treatment modalities: drugs, surgery (open or transnasal), gamma knife, radiotherapy, etc. The specific treatment modalities depend on the location of the tumor, endocrine condition, treatment goals, etc. Most of the prolactinomas can be treated with drugs and do not need surgery; if surgery is needed, craniotomy is not considered if the purpose of treatment can be achieved through the nose; some of them can be treated with gamma knife if they remain after surgery, etc.
The prognosis of pituitary tumor treatment is good, and the majority of patients can obtain a better quality of life.