Re: Idiopathic hyperprolactinoma

[MinnieChat]

New Message on Pituitary Chat Idiopathic hyperprolactinoma Reply   Reply to Sender   Recommend Message 24 in Discussion From: MinnieChat Hospital admission for ambulatory clinical pituitary endocrine testing is pretty much unheard of  nowadays (insurance companies would have a fit) but, if any of you would like to look at the National Institutes of Health for a Research Protocol, please check them out!   How recent are the gold standard articles? I'd be interested in the titles so I could check them out?   True, on the things that can cause mild prolactin increases. Good points...also need to stress that different labs use different reference ranges. If you have a macroadenoma, your endo may have you do MRI's more frequently to see if your medications are working. I remember a prominent endo stating that the pen can be mighter than the "sword" meaning the surgeons knife.   I had mildly elevated prolactin and had Cushings.. lol, so it is very good of you to make points that  mildly elevated prolactin isn't just about prolactinomas - lol There are also such things as mixed tumors. We recently had a poster who had a quote "non-functioning tumor" who had pathology that showed a mixed-PR/GH tumor. I guess since PR was mildly elevated the assumption was that the tumor was NF and it never crossed the physicians mind to consider that it just might be a mixed tumor - never-the-less a hormone functioning tumor.   Welcome to the group! View other groups in this category. Also on MSN: Start Chatting | Listen to Music | House & Home | Try Online Dating | Daily Horoscopes To stop getting this e-mail, or change how often it arrives, go to your E-mail Settings. Need help? If you've forgotten your password, please go to Passport Member Services. For other questions or feedback, go to our Contact Us page. If you do not want to receive future e-mail from this MSN group, or if you received this message by mistake, please click the "Remove" link below. On the pre-addressed e-mail message that opens, simply click "Send". Your e-mail address will be deleted from this group's mailing list. Remove my e-mail address from Pituitary Chat.