Brain and optic chiasmal herniation following cabergoline treatment for a giant prolactinoma: wait or intervene?

Labrini Papanastasiou,Stelios Fountoulakis,Theodora Pappa,Konstantinos Liberopoulos,Dimosthenis Malliopoulos,Athina Markou,George Piaditis

Brain and optic chiasmal herniation following cabergoline treatment for a giant prolactinoma: wait or intervene?

2014

Labrini Papanastasiou
Stelios Fountoulakis
Theodora Pappa
Konstantinos Liberopoulos
Dimosthenis Malliopoulos
Athina Markou
George Piaditis

OBJECTIVE Dopamine agonists (DA) are the treatment of choice in patients with macroprolactinomas. Brain and optic chiasm herniation are unusual complications following treatment with DA.

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Brain herniation
Cabergoline
Dopamine
Prolactinoma
Optic chiasm
Surgery
Medicine
Adenoma
Magnetic resonance imaging
Optic nerve
Macroprolactinoma
Meridian (perimetry, visual field)

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