[Drug therapy of hyperprolactinemia and acromegaly]

Hyperprolactinemia can be treated medically. Thus all patients with a normal sella turcica and those patients with only slight enlargement of the sella turcica can be treated medically with the dopaminagonist bromocriptine. This treatment is also indicated in paitents with postoperative persisting hyperprolactinemia. In contrast to hyperprolactinemia medical therapy of acromegaly is still in the experimental stage, through the dopaminagonist bromocriptine induces a decrease of growth hormone levels and improvement of the disease in many patients with acromegaly.