Improving quality of life in patients with pituitary tumours

Iris Crespo; Alicia Santos; Eugenia Resmini; Elena Valassi; Maria Antonia Martínez-Momblán; Susan M. Webb

Improving quality of life in patients with pituitary tumours

Iris Crespo, Alicia Santos, Eugenia Resmini, Elena Valassi, Maria Antonia Martínez-Momblán, Susan M. Webb

Department of Medicine

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Abstract

Evaluation of health-related quality of life (QoL) in people with pituitary tumours has received much attention over the last 10-15 years. Most of them show impaired QoL, but little is known about how to prevent impairment or how to improve QoL. Our aim is to review what is known about QoL in pituitary tumours patients and to highlight the areas worth improving, for the patient's well being. The article has four sections: acromegaly, Cushing's syndrome, prolactinomas and non-functioning adenomas. Control of comorbidities is usually an important factor to prevent QoL impairment; however, each disease has specific characteristics that should be properly addressed in order to obtain full patient recovery after successful therapy. © TOUCH MEDICAL MEDIA 2013.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	32-36
Journal	European Endocrinology
Volume	9
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2013

Keywords

Acromegaly
Cushing's syndrome
Non-functioning adenomas
Pituitary tumours
Prolactinomas
Quality of life

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Improving quality of life in patients with pituitary tumours

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