New insights in the management of antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia in a patient with prolactinoma: a case report and review of the literature

Case Rep Med. 2010:2010:573252. doi: 10.1155/2010/573252. Epub 2010 Nov 10.

Abstract

Prolactinomas are the commonest pituitary adenomas and the major pathological cause of hyperprolactinaemia. Symptomatic prolactinomas are treated mainly by dopamine agonists; surgery and radiotherapy are options for nonresponders. Schizophrenia treatment is based on antipsychotics, which acts mainly at serotonergic and dopaminergic systems. We report a case of a 39-year-old schizophrenic male patient that was diagnosed with a macroprolactinoma 8 years after his first psychotic episode. The association of Schizophrenia and prolactinoma represents a clinical challenge once the treatment of one disease can exacerbate the symptoms of the other.

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