title: Hyperprolactinaemia: analysis of presentation, diagnosis and treatment in the endocrine service of a general hospital.
abstract: The charts of 184 patients with clinically significant hyperprolactinaemia who presented to a teaching hospital between 1978-1995 were reviewed, 158 (86%) females and 26 (14%) males. Hyperprolactinaemia was due to a microadenoma or was idiopathic in 36.4%, drug induced in 16%, associated with a macroadenoma in 12%, due to epilepsy in 7%, with other causes each contributing 5% or less. The presenting symptoms were amenorrhoea in 64%, galactorrhoea in 40.5%, infertility in 15%, visual field defect in 9%, with impotence in 30% and, gynaecomastia in 8% of men. One hundred and one patients were treated with bromocriptine (80%), surgery (35.4%) and radiotherapy (10.7%). Twenty-five percent of patients developed side-effects of bromocriptine for which cabergoline, a new long-lasting dopaminergic agonist, was successfully substituted. Presenting features responded to drug treatment in 70-80% of patients.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus, St. Vincent's Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Suliman
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: al-saber
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hayes
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fiad
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Culliton
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cunningham
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: McKenna
mesh_terms: D001971:Bromocriptine / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006727:Hormone Antagonists / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D006966:Hyperprolactinemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D006727:Hormone Antagonists; D001971:Bromocriptine