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Hyperprolactinaemia and infertility following cranial irradiation for brain tumours: successful treatment with
T Petterson1, I A MacFarlane, P M Foy
1Mersey Regional Department of Neurological Sciences, Walton Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
British Journal of Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Two young women developed oligomenorrhoea and galactorrhoea 4 and 7 years after whole brain irradiation for brain tumours. Both had mild hyperprolactinaemia due to irradiation-induced hypothalamic damage. In both patients, oral bromocriptine normalized prolactin levels and menstruation resumed. One patient then had a successful pregnancy.