Prolactinoma during pregnancy causing compression symptoms responding to bromocriptine therapy.
A woman with pituitary macroadenoma causing pressure symptoms and a partial right third cranial nerve palsy during pregnancy is described. Complete resolution occurred using oral bromocriptine therapy alone and the remainder of the pregnancy was uneventful.
D000328:Adult; D001971:Bromocriptine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000378:metabolism*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism; D011388:Prolactin / Q000378:metabolism*
D001971:Bromocriptine; D011388:Prolactin