Health-Related Quality of Life in Pituitary Diseases

Iris Crespo; Elena Valassi; Alicia Santos; Susan M. Webb

doi:10.1016/j.ecl.2014.10.013

Health-Related Quality of Life in Pituitary Diseases

Iris Crespo, Elena Valassi, Alicia Santos, Susan M. Webb

Department of Medicine

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Abstract

© 2015 Elsevier Inc. In the last 15 years, worse health-related quality of life (QoL) has been reported in patients with pituitary diseases compared with healthy individuals. Different QoL questionnaires have shown incomplete physical and psychological recovery after therapy. Residual impairments often affect QoL even long-term after successful treatment of pituitary adenomas. In this article, knowledge of factors that affect QoL in pituitary diseases is reviewed. The focus is on 5 pituitary diseases: Cushing syndrome, acromegaly, prolactinomas, nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas, and hypopituitarism.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	161-170
Journal	Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America
Volume	44
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecl.2014.10.013
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2015

Keywords

Acromegaly
Cushing syndrome
Hypopituitarism
Nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma
Pituitary diseases
Prolactinoma
Quality of life

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