What are the symptoms of late-stage pituitary tumors

The incidence of pituitary tumors tends to increase, causing great harm to the patients' lives and health. Many patients do not know much about the symptoms of this disease. They are often found to have pituitary tumors during examinations because they cannot find the cause of infertility or their vision has declined. So, what are the symptoms of late-stage pituitary tumors? Let's take a look.

Generally speaking, the late symptoms of pituitary tumors are caused by endocrine disorders or space-occupying effects caused by erosion or compression of peripheral nerves or vascular structures. The neurological symptoms caused by pituitary tumors are directly related to the size of the tumor and its growth direction. Generally, when non-secretory adenomas are diagnosed, the tumor volume is often large, and they often grow above or outside the sella turcica, and the clinical neurological symptoms are often more obvious. Secretory adenomas produce symptoms of hyperendocrine in the early stage, so most of them are small in size when diagnosed. The tumors are mostly located in the sella turcica or grow slightly above the sella turcica, and no or only mild neurological symptoms are produced clinically. The main points are as follows:

1. Hormone changes: What are the symptoms of death in the late stage of pituitary tumors? Various types of secretory adenomas can secrete excessive hormones, which can produce different symptoms of hyperendocrine in the early stage. Adenomas without secretory function can compress and destroy the anterior pituitary cells, resulting in a decrease in troponin and corresponding target cell dysfunction, and clinical symptoms of endocrine dysfunction. A few cases of endocrine adenoma may also develop hypopituitarism in the late stage of the disease.

2. Proximal symptoms: caused by the pituitary tumor growing outside the sella turcica and compressing adjacent structures.

3. Symptoms of optic nerve compression: The upward growth of the pituitary tumor can raise the diaphragm sellae or break through the diaphragm sellae to compress the optic nerve chiasm upward, causing changes in vision and visual field.

4. Headache: About 2/3 of patients with non-secretory pituitary tumors may have headaches, but they are not too serious. The tumor grows into the third ventricle and blocks the interventricular foramen, causing increased intracranial pressure, which can cause diffuse headaches. Sometimes intratumoral bleeding or tumor cyst rupture can cause acute and severe headaches.

The above is a detailed introduction for you. I believe that everyone has a certain understanding. Be sure to go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time, be sure to discover it in time and take timely methods for treatment, maintain a good attitude, and treat the symptoms to reduce unnecessary harm.