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Cabergoline Failure and a Spontaneous Pregnancy in a Microprolactinoma with High Prolactin Levels

We report a particular case of a spontaneously occurring pregnancy in a long-term amenorrheic patient due to a prolactinoma with high serum prolactin (PRL) following the failure of dopamine agonist therapy (DA) for infertility. Initially, clinical, laboratory, and genital ultrasounds were normal, bu...

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Autores principales: Tica, Andrei Adrian, Dumitrescu, Daniela, Tica, Irina, Neamţu, Corina, Tica, Vlad Iustin, Dumitrescu, Cristiana Iulia, Tica, Oana Sorina
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9780970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36556282
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm12122061
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author Tica, Andrei Adrian
Dumitrescu, Daniela
Tica, Irina
Neamţu, Corina
Tica, Vlad Iustin
Dumitrescu, Cristiana Iulia
Tica, Oana Sorina
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Dumitrescu, Daniela
Tica, Irina
Neamţu, Corina
Tica, Vlad Iustin
Dumitrescu, Cristiana Iulia
Tica, Oana Sorina
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description We report a particular case of a spontaneously occurring pregnancy in a long-term amenorrheic patient due to a prolactinoma with high serum prolactin (PRL) following the failure of dopamine agonist therapy (DA) for infertility. Initially, clinical, laboratory, and genital ultrasounds were normal, but the serum PRL was 10,074 μIU/mL (n.v.: 127–637 μIU/mL), the PEG fraction was 71% (laboratory cut-off > 60%), and luteinizing hormone (LH) was significantly lower. An MRI revealed a pituitary tumor of 12.8/10 mm with a subacute intratumoral hemorrhage. DA was initiated, and menstrual bleeding reappeared with a reduction in the tumor’s volume to 1.9/2.2 mm at 12 months. Two years later, the patient renounced DA and follow-ups. After another 2 years, she became spontaneously pregnant. Serum PRL was 18,325 μIU/mL, and an MRI revealed a microprolactinoma of 2.1/2 mm. The patient gave birth to a normal baby at term, and she breastfed for six months, after which she asked for ablactation, and DA was administered. This case highlights the possibility of the occurrence of a normal pregnancy during a long period of amenorrhea induced by a microprolactinoma with a high level of serum PRL, even if DA fails to correct infertility. There was no compulsory relationship between the tumoral volume’s evolution and the evolution of its lactophore activity. The hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism induced by high PRL was mainly manifested by low LH, and in this situation, normal levels of FSH and estradiol do not always induce follicle recruitment and development without abnormalities in the ovary ultrasound.
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spelling pubmed-97809702022-12-24 Cabergoline Failure and a Spontaneous Pregnancy in a Microprolactinoma with High Prolactin Levels Tica, Andrei Adrian Dumitrescu, Daniela Tica, Irina Neamţu, Corina Tica, Vlad Iustin Dumitrescu, Cristiana Iulia Tica, Oana Sorina J Pers Med Case Report We report a particular case of a spontaneously occurring pregnancy in a long-term amenorrheic patient due to a prolactinoma with high serum prolactin (PRL) following the failure of dopamine agonist therapy (DA) for infertility. Initially, clinical, laboratory, and genital ultrasounds were normal, but the serum PRL was 10,074 μIU/mL (n.v.: 127–637 μIU/mL), the PEG fraction was 71% (laboratory cut-off > 60%), and luteinizing hormone (LH) was significantly lower. An MRI revealed a pituitary tumor of 12.8/10 mm with a subacute intratumoral hemorrhage. DA was initiated, and menstrual bleeding reappeared with a reduction in the tumor’s volume to 1.9/2.2 mm at 12 months. Two years later, the patient renounced DA and follow-ups. After another 2 years, she became spontaneously pregnant. Serum PRL was 18,325 μIU/mL, and an MRI revealed a microprolactinoma of 2.1/2 mm. The patient gave birth to a normal baby at term, and she breastfed for six months, after which she asked for ablactation, and DA was administered. This case highlights the possibility of the occurrence of a normal pregnancy during a long period of amenorrhea induced by a microprolactinoma with a high level of serum PRL, even if DA fails to correct infertility. There was no compulsory relationship between the tumoral volume’s evolution and the evolution of its lactophore activity. The hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism induced by high PRL was mainly manifested by low LH, and in this situation, normal levels of FSH and estradiol do not always induce follicle recruitment and development without abnormalities in the ovary ultrasound. MDPI 2022-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9780970/ /pubmed/36556282 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm12122061 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Dumitrescu, Daniela
Tica, Irina
Neamţu, Corina
Tica, Vlad Iustin
Dumitrescu, Cristiana Iulia
Tica, Oana Sorina
Cabergoline Failure and a Spontaneous Pregnancy in a Microprolactinoma with High Prolactin Levels
title Cabergoline Failure and a Spontaneous Pregnancy in a Microprolactinoma with High Prolactin Levels
title_full Cabergoline Failure and a Spontaneous Pregnancy in a Microprolactinoma with High Prolactin Levels
title_fullStr Cabergoline Failure and a Spontaneous Pregnancy in a Microprolactinoma with High Prolactin Levels
title_full_unstemmed Cabergoline Failure and a Spontaneous Pregnancy in a Microprolactinoma with High Prolactin Levels
title_short Cabergoline Failure and a Spontaneous Pregnancy in a Microprolactinoma with High Prolactin Levels
title_sort cabergoline failure and a spontaneous pregnancy in a microprolactinoma with high prolactin levels
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9780970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36556282
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm12122061
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