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. 2013 Mar;9(1):32-36.
doi: 10.17925/EE.2013.09.01.32. Epub 2013 Mar 15.

Improving Quality of Life in Patients with Pituitary Tumours

Iris Crespo  1 , Alicia Santos  1 , Eugenia Resmini  1 , Elena Valassi  1 , Maria Antonia Martínez-Momblán  1   2 , Susan M Webb  1
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Improving Quality of Life in Patients with Pituitary Tumours

Iris Crespo et al. Eur Endocrinol. 2013 Mar.

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.

Keywords: Cushing’s syndrome; Quality of life; acromegaly; non-functioning adenomas; pituitary tumours; prolactinomas.

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Disclosure: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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