Growing ugly was caused by pituitary tumor

Everyone has a love of beauty. However, there are some people who do not pay much attention to their own appearance or the appearance of people around them, but sometimes appearance is not simply a matter of appearance, but also a health problem. Ms. Luo is 52 years old and has not been in good health for several years. In addition to high blood pressure and severe diabetes, her appearance has also changed a lot in the past few years, with prominent cheekbones, thick lips, large hands and feet and a feeling of swelling, and her voice has become low, and her snoring is particularly loud. Ms. Luo thought it was because she was slowly getting older and her body was going downhill, so she didn’t pay much attention to it. These symptoms appeared gradually and her family did not pay much attention to them, but only went to treat diabetes and hypertension in response to the symptoms. It was not until recently that she had an MRI of her skull that she discovered the root cause of these symptoms was due to an intracranial pituitary tumor. The growth hormone adenoma cells in pituitary tumors are capable of secreting growth hormone at levels far exceeding what is needed by the normal body. Elevated growth hormone most commonly causes acromegaly, enlarged hands and feet, forehead bulge, jaw protrusion, cardiomegaly, hypertension, diabetes, headaches, joint pain, fatigue, sleep snoring and sleep apnea, etc. This series of changes may eventually affect life expectancy due to high blood pressure, diabetes, lung infections, heart disease, etc. The vast majority of abnormally elevated growth hormone is due to the growth hormone adenoma in pituitary tumors. After Ms. Luo and her family discovered the pituitary tumor, they compared their current appearance with their previous photos, and realized that their appearance had changed too much in the past few years, but because it was a slow process, they actually never noticed it, and fortunately Ms. Luo finally found the root cause of the disease. We used endoscopy to make a small incision in the nose and completely removed the tumor. The feeling of swelling in her hands and feet also disappeared, and three days after the surgery, Ms. Luo was successfully discharged from the hospital.