Case report: cause of hyperprolactinemia in an elderly patient

Irritation to the chest wall due to herpes zoster virus (HZV) infection is one of many potential underlying causes of hyperprolactinemia. Hyperprolactinemia can lead to various different symptoms including anorgasmia. It is important to identify any sexual dysfunction, but also any other symptoms of...

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Autores principales: Moslehi, Sarah, Iliff, Jonathan, Goudaman, Surya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8931816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35316992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omac006
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description Irritation to the chest wall due to herpes zoster virus (HZV) infection is one of many potential underlying causes of hyperprolactinemia. Hyperprolactinemia can lead to various different symptoms including anorgasmia. It is important to identify any sexual dysfunction, but also any other symptoms of hyperprolactinemia, in elderly patients during medical history taking and not to assume that elderly people are sexually inactive. Anorgasmia and any other sexual dysfunction in elderly can have an impact on their mental health and may even lead to depression and anxiety.
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spelling pubmed-89318162022-03-21 Case report: cause of hyperprolactinemia in an elderly patient Moslehi, Sarah Iliff, Jonathan Goudaman, Surya Oxf Med Case Reports Case Report Irritation to the chest wall due to herpes zoster virus (HZV) infection is one of many potential underlying causes of hyperprolactinemia. Hyperprolactinemia can lead to various different symptoms including anorgasmia. It is important to identify any sexual dysfunction, but also any other symptoms of hyperprolactinemia, in elderly patients during medical history taking and not to assume that elderly people are sexually inactive. Anorgasmia and any other sexual dysfunction in elderly can have an impact on their mental health and may even lead to depression and anxiety. Oxford University Press 2022-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8931816/ /pubmed/35316992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omac006 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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