What are the hazards caused by pituitary tumors? Although people are young and in good health during their young adulthood, there are still some diseases that can occur, and pituitary tumor is a benign tumor disease that often occurs in young adults. Therefore, we need to pay attention to these hazards. So, what are the risks of pituitary tumors?
The pituitary adenoma can break through the saddle and grow downward in the butterfly saddle, and invade the important blood vessels and nerves in the cranium on both sides, but the most common way of growth is to develop on the saddle and compress the optic cross and optic nerve, causing vision loss and visual field loss. Visual field impairment needs to be operated as soon as possible. This is one of the most obvious symptoms of early pituitary tumor.
2.Pituitary tumor can cause hypogonadism The main reasons for hypogonadism caused by pituitary adenoma are: the compression of normal pituitary tissue by pituitary adenoma and the damage caused by radiotherapy cause hypogonadism, which affects the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis in human body, resulting in insufficient secretion of gonadotropin, which further leads to hypogonadism; suffering from Prolactinotropic pituitary microadenoma affects sexual life, which is related to hyperprolactinemia that inhibits gonadotropin release, reduces pituitary responsiveness and decreases testosterone production. It is one of the causes of low sexual function.
3.Pituitary tumor can cause headache About 2/3 of patients have headache symptoms in the early stage, the pain is mainly located in the back of the orbit, the forehead and near the temples bilaterally, the degree is light, intermittent attacks.
Pituitary tumors can cause facial and physical changes. Growth hormone pituitary adenomas cause excessive growth of limbs, muscles and internal organs due to excessive secretion of growth hormone. In adulthood, it is characterized by large hands and feet, wide skull and face, high cheekbones, enlarged nose, thickened lips, loose skin, coarse and dark skin, increased hair, hoarseness, sleep snoring and sleep apnea syndrome. Due to abnormal fat metabolism and distribution, fat accumulates in the chest, abdomen and buttocks, while the extremities are relatively thin and “centripetal obesity”, the face is full-moon shaped, weight increases significantly, and the subcutaneous blood vessels of the extremities are exposed and have purple lines.
Patients with pituitary tumors should go to a regular hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible to minimize the damage caused by the disease. Early treatment and early recovery.