Successful pregnancy after operation in an infertile woman caused by luteinizing hormone-secreting pituitary adenoma: case report and literature review

BACKGROUND: Functional gonadotroph adenomas (FGAs) are rare adenomas that most commonly secrete FSH. However, solitary LH-secreting pituitary adenomas are unusual. CASE PRESENTATION: A 30-year-old woman with elevated LH and normal FSH presented with inability to conceive. An MRI revealed an enlarged...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yi, Chen, Cheng, Lin, Min, Deng, Kan, Zhu, Huijuan, Ma, Wenbin, Pan, Hui, Wang, Renzhi, Yao, Yong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7802169/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33435923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12902-020-00677-3
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Functional gonadotroph adenomas (FGAs) are rare adenomas that most commonly secrete FSH. However, solitary LH-secreting pituitary adenomas are unusual. CASE PRESENTATION: A 30-year-old woman with elevated LH and normal FSH presented with inability to conceive. An MRI revealed an enlarged sella turcica and an intrasellar mass. Treatment with transsphenoidal resection led to normalization of LH and estradiol, as well as successful pregnancy. And we reviewed 6 cases of LH-secreting pituitary adenomas from 1981 to 2020. CONCLUSIONS: Our case is unique because of the LH-secreting pituitary adenoma without FSH hypersecretion. This case indicates that pituitary adenoma should be considered when other diseases causing infertility have been excluded.

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