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Drug Induced Hyperprolactinemia

Introduction: Drugs are a common cause of hyperprolactinemia. It is essential to differentiate this cause from other pathological causes which avoids unnecessary investigations. Detailed history will help us in identifying the responsible drug and withdrawing the same will be rewarding. Here we are...

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Autores principales: Venkatanarasu, Ashok, Boddula, Raman, Basavaraju, Santosh, Chinte, Chimutai, Tickoo, Vidya
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8090542/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvab048.1277
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author Venkatanarasu, Ashok
Boddula, Raman
Basavaraju, Santosh
Chinte, Chimutai
Tickoo, Vidya
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Basavaraju, Santosh
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description Introduction: Drugs are a common cause of hyperprolactinemia. It is essential to differentiate this cause from other pathological causes which avoids unnecessary investigations. Detailed history will help us in identifying the responsible drug and withdrawing the same will be rewarding. Here we are reporting a case series of drug induced hyperprolactinemia. Methods: It was a cross-sectional observational study. Subjects were recruited from our outpatient department. Hyperprolactinemia was defined as blood prolactin levels >30 ng/mL in females and >24 ng/mL in males, regardless of the presence of symptoms. Serum prolactin was repeated one week after holding the suspected drug(s). Drug induced hyperprolactinemia is defined as normalisation of serum prolactin on discontinuation of the offending drug. Demographics, clinical presentation and offending drug name were entered in pre designed proforma. Results: Total of 32 subjects were studied in this study with age of 35.5±10.8years. Predominantly female subjects were present with female to male ratio 5.4. Basal prolactin was 132±68.7ng/mL and after holding the drug prolactin value was 16.9±8.2. Proton pump inhibitors in combination with prokinetics were the leading cause (71.8%) and followed by multiple drug combinations (15.6%), anti-psychiatric drugs(9.3%) and oral contraceptives(3.1%). Overall 86.75% of subjects were having symptomatic presentation. Commonest clinical presentation among the women was galactorrhea (88.9% of female subjects) followed by irregular menstrual cycles (59% of female subjects) and breast heaviness in 29.6%. Among the men erectile dysfunction was common presentation, noted among 80% of them. Asymptomatic presentation was there in 6.25% of subjects. All subjects were improved clinically after withdrawal of the the offending drug(s). Conclusions: Most of the subjects were clinically symptomatic. Most common symptom in female was galactorrhea followed by irregular menses and breast heaviness, and erectile dysfunction in males. All subjects were improved clinically after withdrawal of the offending drug(s). A detailed drug history is rewarding and avoids unnecessary investigations for hyperprolactinemia
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spelling pubmed-80905422021-05-05 Drug Induced Hyperprolactinemia Venkatanarasu, Ashok Boddula, Raman Basavaraju, Santosh Chinte, Chimutai Tickoo, Vidya J Endocr Soc Neuroendocrinology and Pituitary Introduction: Drugs are a common cause of hyperprolactinemia. It is essential to differentiate this cause from other pathological causes which avoids unnecessary investigations. Detailed history will help us in identifying the responsible drug and withdrawing the same will be rewarding. Here we are reporting a case series of drug induced hyperprolactinemia. Methods: It was a cross-sectional observational study. Subjects were recruited from our outpatient department. Hyperprolactinemia was defined as blood prolactin levels >30 ng/mL in females and >24 ng/mL in males, regardless of the presence of symptoms. Serum prolactin was repeated one week after holding the suspected drug(s). Drug induced hyperprolactinemia is defined as normalisation of serum prolactin on discontinuation of the offending drug. Demographics, clinical presentation and offending drug name were entered in pre designed proforma. Results: Total of 32 subjects were studied in this study with age of 35.5±10.8years. Predominantly female subjects were present with female to male ratio 5.4. Basal prolactin was 132±68.7ng/mL and after holding the drug prolactin value was 16.9±8.2. Proton pump inhibitors in combination with prokinetics were the leading cause (71.8%) and followed by multiple drug combinations (15.6%), anti-psychiatric drugs(9.3%) and oral contraceptives(3.1%). Overall 86.75% of subjects were having symptomatic presentation. Commonest clinical presentation among the women was galactorrhea (88.9% of female subjects) followed by irregular menstrual cycles (59% of female subjects) and breast heaviness in 29.6%. Among the men erectile dysfunction was common presentation, noted among 80% of them. Asymptomatic presentation was there in 6.25% of subjects. All subjects were improved clinically after withdrawal of the the offending drug(s). Conclusions: Most of the subjects were clinically symptomatic. Most common symptom in female was galactorrhea followed by irregular menses and breast heaviness, and erectile dysfunction in males. All subjects were improved clinically after withdrawal of the offending drug(s). A detailed drug history is rewarding and avoids unnecessary investigations for hyperprolactinemia Oxford University Press 2021-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8090542/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvab048.1277 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Endocrine Society. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Venkatanarasu, Ashok
Boddula, Raman
Basavaraju, Santosh
Chinte, Chimutai
Tickoo, Vidya
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title_full Drug Induced Hyperprolactinemia
title_fullStr Drug Induced Hyperprolactinemia
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title_short Drug Induced Hyperprolactinemia
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topic Neuroendocrinology and Pituitary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8090542/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvab048.1277
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