The disease caused by excessive heating hormone is acromegaly, the causes of its occurrence are usually associated with the pituitary tumor. The formation of the adenoma of pituitary glands, in other words, diseases acromegaly, causes and symptoms of its manifestation.
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Acromegaly, the reasons for which are usually associated with a pituitary tumor and excessive release of growth hormone, scientists continue to study until now, but they are definitely not installed. The disease is found in both men and women under the age of 40. Neuroinfection, intoxication, pathology during pregnancy and childbirth, brain injury can provoke acromegaly. The causes and symptoms of the disease are conjugate with increased products of somatotropic hormone. Excess growth hormone is manifested by an increase in the transverse sizes of brushes, stop, facial bones, internal organs, as well as violation of metabolism. Patients have a disproportional growth and change in the face form, the nose, zickyl and abnormal arcs, the lower jaw, thicken the lips, thicken, the swelling tongue is hardly placed in the mouth. Attention is drawn to the skin on the forehead, nose and head of the head, there is an intense growth of the skeleton bones and a gradual change in appearance, the thickening of the hair, the active functioning of the sebaceous and sweat glands, the damage to the pancreas and thyroid gland. Patients are bothering headaches, increased fatigue, vision disorder and violation of the function of the genital glands.
Hormonal imbalance leads to the emergence of general weakness, change in sensitivity in hand, weakening mental abilities. Menstruation is broken or completely disappears, the fat exchange changes, the milk of milk glands is noted, men appear neurological and ophthalmological problems, the libido and potency decreases.
Adenoma pituitary gland
It should be understood, in connection with which such signs and symptoms of the disease begin to develop. The cells of the pituitary gland producing somatotropin for some reason begin to develop faster and more actively produce a hormone. Over time, this leads to the formation of a benign tumor — Adenoma pituitary gland, which in the course of its development takes place a number of stages:
- early stage — Precomesgalic, detected very rarely;
- Hypertrophical — Deployed clinic of the disease;
- Tumor — manifestation of signs of influence on neighboring bodies;
- Cachectic Stage — Exodus of the disease.
In the initial stages of the disease there is some increase in muscle strength, in the future this is replaced by weakness and reduction of muscle volume. In the course of the development of pathology, signs of cardiac and pulmonary failure are detected, the acuity of sight and hearing is reduced, blood pressure increases. Further growth of the tumor causes drowsiness, thirst, the growth of the frequency of urinary, sharp differences of body temperature, possibly the development of epilepsy.
Acromegaly: Treatment and diagnostics
In the diagnosis of disease, endocrinologists, ophthalmologists, neurosurgeons and neurologists rely on the study of characteristic external changes and use x-ray data and computed tomography, which allows you to identify the primary hearth in the front share of the pituitary and brain bones. Hormonal examination reveals an increased level of growth hormone, which is confirmed by laboratory studies, among which should be noted with glucose sample as the most accurate and reliable.
The appearance of characteristic changes in appearance — reason to immediately appeal to the doctor and identify possible acromegaly, treatment and further observation of the patient's health.
Treatment implies a set of measures aimed at the correction of hormonal imbalance using various methods:
- surgical intervention with the removal of the pituitary tumor;
- Reducing the level of growth hormone by applying medicinal therapy.
Patients with acromegaly need constant monitoring of specialists using modern methods of radiation and hormone therapy, which in time allows to eliminate excessive allocation of growth hormone and thereby facilitate the patient's condition. Long increase in somatotropin in the patient's blood can lead to early mortality. The forecast in the absence of timely and constant treatment is very unfavorable, at the same time, with careful and systematic treatment, it is possible to recovery.
