Comparative evaluation of neuroendocrine dysfunction in children with craniopharyngiomas before and after mass effects are removed
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Ying Guo
Abstract
Objective
To compare the effects of mass effects in situ (MEIS) and after neurosurgery (ANS) on neuroendocrine function in children with craniopharyngioma.
Methods
We retrospectively investigated 185 cases of children with craniopharyngioma who underwent neurosurgical treatment at the Beijing Tiantan Hospital from 2011 to 2016. The neuroendocrine function of patients was compared before and after tumor removal.
Results
Compared with the MEIS, the incidence of growth hormone insulin-like growth factor 1 axis dysfunction (47.03% vs. 57.30%), pituitary-thyroid axis dysfunction (20.00% vs. 50.27%), pituitary-adrenal axis dysfunction (18.38% vs. 43.78%) and diabetes insipidus (26.49% vs. 44.86%) was significantly increased in the ANS status. The incidence of hyperprolactinemia significantly decreased from 28.11% in the MEIS status to 20.54% in the ANS status. Compared with the MEIS group, changes in appetite, development of diabetes insipidus, body temperature dysregulation, sleeping disorders, personality abnormalities and cognitive abnormalities were more frequent after ANS, yet no statistically significant differences were found.
Conclusions
Endocrine dysfunction is common in children with craniopharyngioma. Both MEIS and ANS can be harmful to neuroendocrine function, and neurosurgical treatment may increase the level of neuroendocrine dysfunction.
Acknowledgments
None declared.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: This work was funded by the Characteristic Project on Capital Clinical Research, the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Committee (No. Z181100001718122), and the Research Special Fund for Public Welfare Industry of Health (No. 201402008).
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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- Frontmatter
- Mini Review
- Clinical, biochemical, and molecular spectrum of short/branched-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency: two new cases and review of literature
- Original Articles
- Assessment of biomarkers of inflammation and premature atherosclerosis in adolescents with type-1 diabetes mellitus
- Frequency, clinical characteristics, biochemical findings and outcomes of DKA at the onset of type-1 DM in young children and adolescents living in a developing country – an experience from a pediatric emergency department
- Hepatopathies in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes
- Comparative evaluation of neuroendocrine dysfunction in children with craniopharyngiomas before and after mass effects are removed
- Functional and endocrine-metabolic oligomenorrhea: proposal of a new diagnostic assessment tool for differential diagnosis in adolescence
- Socioeconomic status of the population – a prime determinant in evaluating iodine nutritional status even in a post salt iodization scenario
- Long-term outcome of hyperthyroidism diagnosed in childhood and adolescence: a single-centre experience
- Thyroid function in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome: an Italian multicenter study of 339 patients
- Maternal factors associated with neonatal vitamin D deficiency
- IGF-1 assessed by pubertal status has the best positive predictive power for GH deficiency diagnosis in peripubertal children
- One-year treatment with gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues does not affect body mass index, insulin sensitivity or lipid profile in girls with central precocious puberty
- Letter to the Editor
- Prediabetes in children and adolescents in the United States: prevalence estimates and comorbidities – a population analysis
- Case Reports
- Severe in utero under-virilization in a 46,XY patient with Silver-Russell syndrome with 11p15 loss of methylation
- Carney complex due to a novel pathogenic variant in the PRKAR1A gene – a case report
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