Advancing Awareness & Support for Pituitary Health

February 2024 Research Articles

Research Articles

Pituitary Tumors Functional gonadotroph pituitary adenoma: A case report. Prolactinoma and Adenomyosis – More than Meets the Eye: A Case Report. Brain tumor detection from images and comparison with transfer learning methods and 3-layer CNN. Resistance to...

PNA Highlights January 2024

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“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   PNA Spotlight: Dr. Paul A. Gardner This month the PNA Spotlight focuses on Dr. Paul A. Gardner.  Paul A. Gardner, MD, joined...

PNA Spotlight: Dr. Paul Gardner

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This month the PNA Spotlight focuses on Dr. Paul A. Gardner. Paul A. Gardner, MD, joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery in 2008 after completing his residency and fellowship training at the University of Pittsburgh. He...

PNA Medical Corner: Artificial Intelligence and Pituitary Surgery

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The PNA Medical Corner this month features an article co-authored by neurosurgeon Aaron Cohen-Gadol of Indiana University, a longtime member of the PNA. They conclude that A-I and machine learning will improve preoperative planning and surgical strategies in pituitary...

News Articles January 2024

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Woman diagnosed with pituitary tumor after nose, feet grow A woman in the U.K. ignored her fatigue and headaches for years, but saw a doctor after her nose and feet kept getting bigger. That led to the discovery of a pituitary tumor that had been present for 20 years....

January 2024 Research Articles

Research Articles

Pituitary Tumors Prognostic Biomarkers in Pituitary Tumours: A Systematic Review. Enhanced EPR effects by tumour stromal cell mimicking nanoplatform on invasive pituitary adenoma. Double Pituitary Incidentaloma in a Young Woman With Sinusitis-Related Headache....

PNA Highlights December 2023

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“He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.” – Thomas Carlyle    PNA Spotlight: Dr. Juan Fernandez-Miranda This month the PNA Spotlight focuses on Dr. Juan Carlos Fernandez-Miranda, a Professor of Neurosurgery and the Surgical Director...

December 2023 Research Articles

Research Articles

Pituitary Tumors Genetic Testing in Hereditary Pituitary Tumors. Natural history of post-operative non-functioning pituitary adenomas – a single centre cohort analysis. Indocyanine green endoscopic evaluation of pituitary stalk and gland blood flow in...

News Articles December 2023

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Effect of Antipsychotics on Prolactinoma Growth A study featured in Cureus looks the effect of antipsychotic medications on prolactinoma growth and found that when a patient stops taking risperidone, haloperidol, thioridazine, or amisulpride, prolactin levels in the...

PNA Medical Corner: Cushing Disease and Double Pituitary Adenoma

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This month in the PNA Medical Corner we focus on a study coauthored by two members of the PNA: Drs. Adriana Ioachimescu and Nathan Zwagerman. The research is a case study of a woman with two pituitary tumors. Consecutive resections of double pituitary adenoma for...