Hyperprolactinemia
Hyperprolactinemia: Excerpt from A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis
Addison's disease
Adrenal carcinoma
Adrenal hyperplasia
Antiprolactin autoantibodies
Chronic renal failure
Cirrhosis
Diseases affecting the hypothalamus and/or pituitary stalk
Aneurysms
Basilar meningitis
Empty sella syndrome
Encephalitis/postencephalitis
Giant cell arteritis
Histiocytosis X
Hydrocephalus
Hypothalamic tumors, primary or metastatic (including craniopharyngiomas, dysgerminomas, gliomas, hamartomas, lymphomas, meningiomas, and pinealomas)
Neuraxis irradiation
Pituitary stalk section (including pituitary tumors compressing the stalk)
Pseudotumor cerebri
Postpneumoencephalogram
Rathke's pouch cyst
Sarcoidosis
Trauma
Tuberculosis
Other destructive lesions of the hypothalamus
Drugs
Alpha-methyldopa
Alpha-methyl-para tyrosine
Amphetamines
Androgens
Antidepressants
Dibenzoxazepine antidepressants (e.g., amoxapine)
Tricyclic antidepressants
Antihistaminics (H1 and H2)
Cimetidine
Cyproheptadine
Meclizine
Tripelennamine
Benzodiazepines
Calcium channel blockers
Cocaine
Cyproterone acetate
Domperidone
Estrogens
Isoniazid
Medroxalol
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors
Meprobamate
Neuroleptics
Azophenothiazines
Benzisoxazoles
Butyrophenones
Dibenzooxazepines
Dibenzothiazepines
Dihydroindolones
Phenothiazines
Thioxanthenes
Opiates
Reserpine
Substituted benzamides
Brompride
Clebopride
Cisapride (rare)
Metoclopramide
Sulpiride
Tetrabenazine
Thyrotropin-releasing hormone
Hypoglycemia
Idiopathic hyperprolactinemia
Macroprolactinemia
Neural stimulation
Due to disorders of the chest wall and thorax
Atopic dermatitis
Bronchiectasis/chronic bronchitis
Bronchogenic tumors
Burns
Chest wall lesions
Chest wall scars
Chest wall trauma
Herpes zoster
Mastectomy/mammoplasty
Neoplasms of the chest wall
Thoracotomy/thoracoplasty
Tight garments
Due to nipple stimulation
Chronic inflammatory disease
Mechanical stimulation of the nipples
Due to psychogenic factors
Pseudocyesis
Posttrauma
Stress
Due to spinal cord disease
Cervical ependymoma
Cervical spinal cord lesions
Extrinsic tumors
Syringomyelia
Tabes dorsalis
Major surgery and anesthesia, especially oophorectomy
Seizures
Physiologic causes of hyperprolactinemia
Exercise
Intercourse
Newborn
Postpartum
Nonnursing (4 weeks)
Suckling
Pregnancy
Sleep
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Primary hypothyroidism
Pseudohypoparathyroidism
Refeeding after starvation
Tumors secreting prolactin or placental lactogen
Acromegaly
Bronchogenic carcinoma
Chorioepithelioma
Hydatidiform mole
Hypernephroma
Prolactinoma
Uterine leiomyoma
References
1. Katznelson L, Klibanski A: Prolactin and Its Disorders, pp. 141–143. See Bibliography, 2.
2. Reichlin S: Neuroendocrinology, p. 226. See Bibliography, 3.
Book Source Details
- Book Title: A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis
- Author(s): Stephen N. Adler, Dianne B. Gasbarra
- Year of Publication: 1999
- Copyright Details: A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis, Copyright © 1999 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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