Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

-George Bernard Shaw

In Memorium:

Justin Schultz Cetas, MD, PhD

Oct. 3, 1970 – July 13, 2022

PNA Spotlight: Tyler J. Kenning

This month the PNA Spotlight focuses on Tyler J. Kenning, MD, FAANS, who serves as director of pituitary and cranial base surgery at Piedmont Brain Tumor Center, part of Piedmont Atlanta Hospital. Dr. Kenning attended medical school at Thomas Jefferson University, graduating in 2005. He did his residency at Albany Medical Center in neurological surgery and completed a fellowship in neurosurgical oncology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Here are Dr. Kenning’s answers to a series of questions posed by the PNA.

PNA Medical Corner: When Pituitary Carcinoma Spreads to the Cervical Spine

This month the PNA Medical Corner focuses on a study co-authored by longtime PNA member Dr. William Couldwell. It presents a case study of a woman whose prior pituitary carcinoma spread to the cervical spine. They conclude that long term monitoring of hormones after pituitary surgery is crucial.

Featured News and Updates

News Articles March 2024

Comedian Amy Schumer battles Cushing’s

Actress and comedian Amy Schumer revealed that she has been dealing with exogenous Cushing’s Syndrome, apparently triggered by steroid shots. Read more:

Here is a Q and A about it from the University of Virginia: Read more:

4th dose of Pfizer Covid vaccine linked to expansion of pituitary tumor

The Journal Cureus features a case report from Thailand about a woman who experienced sudden blindness after taking the 4th Pfizer Covid vaccine. Doctors believe it caused a pre-existing pituitary tumor to enlarge and press on her optic chiasm Read more here:

Article on the case report:   Read more here:

Pituitary Journey: Headaches, enlarged hands lead to diagnosis

An article in ClickonDetroit.com tells the story of a woman who suffered from debilitating headaches for more than a year, and then started noticing her hands aan feet were getting bigger. After multiple trips to the doctor and the emergency room, she demanded an MRI, and that’s when she got the diagnosis: acromegaly. Read more here:

 

Research Articles

March 2024 Research Articles

Pituitary Tumors

Strategy for Identifying a Robust Metabolomic Signature Reveals the Altered Lipid Metabolism in Pituitary Adenoma.

Alternations of Blood Pressure Following Surgical or Drug Therapy for Prolactinomas.

Pituitary Surgery

Clinical and Operative Risk Factors Associated With Prolonged Length of Stay After Endoscopic Pituitary Adenoma Resection.

Intraoperative prevention of nasal mucosal injury and surgical field contamination during single-nostril transnasal endoscopic pituitary adenomas resection.

Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery for unusual sellar lesions: eight cases and review of the literature.

Sphenoid Sinus Mucosal Flap after Transsphenoidal Surgery-A Systematic Review.

Prognostic factors for surgical treatment of prolactin-secreting pituitary adenomas.

Cushings

Clinical features and risk factors for postoperative recurrence in patients with Cushing’s syndrome of different etiologies.

Case report: Complete restoration of the HPA axis function in Cushing’s disease with drug treatment.

 

Acromegaly

The clinical and biochemical spectrum of ectopic acromegaly.

Surgical outcomes in patients with acromegaly: Microscopic vs. endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery.

Long-term Depot Specific Changes in Adipose Tissue after Treatment of Acromegaly.

 

Neuroendocrine Tumors

Clinicopathological analysis of densely and sparsely granulated somatotroph tumors of pituitary.

FSH-producing pituitary neuroendocrine tumor as a cause of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.

 

Pituitary Cancer

Multi-Omics Analysis of the Oncogenic Value of Pituitary Tumor-Transforming Gene 1 (PTTG1) in Human Cancers.

 

Childhood pituitary issues

Reversibility of disturbed pituitary function in pediatric conditions with psychological stressors: implications for clinical practice.

Auxological, Clinical, and MRI Abnormalities in Pediatric Patients With Isolated Growth Hormone Deficiency.

 

Hormonal Health

Current Insights in Prolactin Signaling and Ovulatory Function.

 

COVID and the Pituitary

The Growing Understanding of the Pituitary Implication in the Pathogenesis of Long COVID-19 Syndrome: A Narrative Review.

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