Active clinical trials for "Pituitary Diseases"

Sellar area tumors such as pituitary adenoma, craniopharyngioma and meningioma, etc, commonly lead to visual impairment symptoms. Patients suffer from a loss of visual acuity (VA) and visual field defects (VF) due to a local compression on the optic chiasma by the tumor. In the management of these patients, it is an important goal to evaluate their visual function throughout the treatment, so as to predict the outcome of the visual function . Since the visual pathway contains a huge complex network of both structure and function, traditional simplex evaluation of VA and VF is obviously not enough. Former studies have revealed changes in the visual network and cortex structure in neurodegenerative diseases and optic neuritis, yet the functional and structural changes caused by local tumor compression and their relation to the visual cortex activity patterns needs further research. The objective of this research is to asses the visual function in patients with sellar area tumor 1 week preoperatively (baseline),72 hours postoperatively(checking point 1) and at 3 months follow up(checkpoint 2). By using multimodal evaluation including visual resting and task state fMRI, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), etc. The investigators aim to reveal the changes in functional connectivity (FC), amplitude of low frequency fluctuation (ALFF), regional homogeneity (REHO) ,visual cortex activity patterns and tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS).

The aim of this study is to determine the impact of endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary surgery on nasal function using a numerical simulation and to compare the difference between two kinds of transsphenoidal approachese(single nostril approach and bilateral nostril approach)．

Recently, the occurrence and potential impact of pituitary dysfunction after aSAH has gained increasing interest. Several studies have demonstrated pituitary dysfunction after SAH suggesting that pituitary dysfunction may be a contributing factor for residual symptoms after SAH. This is an observational multicentric study aimed to test the prevalence of thyroid abnormalities, other neuroendocrinological dysfunction and their influence on outcome of patients affected by aSAH.

Pituitary adenomas can cause compression of optic nerves and chiasm, which will lead to damage of vision. This study aims to evaluate the predictive factors for recovery of vision in patients with pituitary adenomas following trans-sphenoidal surgery.