Recovery of Pituitary and Visual Function After Rathke’s Cleft Cyst Decompression: An 80-case Institutional Experience
Decompression of Rathke's cleft cysts can improve anterior pituitary function in patients with smaller cysts and minimal optic nerve pressure. Visual function will likely improve in those with minimal optic nerve fiber layer thinning. Therefore, preoperative optical coherence tomography and visual field testing are mandatory to set expectations regarding potential improvement in vision and anterior pituitary function following surgery. Patients with preoperative adult GH deficiency and a history of surgery are at higher risk of developing postoperative arginine vasopressin deficiency.
Authors
- Naoko Inoshita (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5459-3388)
- Noriaki Tanabe
- Go Matsuoka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0417-1432)
- Masafumi Hamada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4263-2906)
- Nobuhiro Miki
- Shozo Yamada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2986-0816)
- Haruko Yoshimoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2778-5448)
- Koji Takano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9200-9461)
- Masataka Kato
- Masami Ono
- Hideki Shiramizu
- Sachiko Tanaka‐Mizuno
- Atsushi Ishida (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-4845)
Institutions
- Kobe Pharmaceutical University (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the Endocrine Society
- Published
- 2025-05-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvaf093
- Primary Topic
- Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00