Optico-Chiasmatic Distortions in Pituitary Adenomas: Correlation Between Postoperative Morphological Reversal and Follow-Up Functional Visual Recovery.

Objective: To objectively correlate distortions of optic apparatus morphology in patients with pituitary adenomas undergoing trans-sphenoidal surgery.

Methods: In this retrospective analysis, visual acuity (VA), visual field (VF), and total visual (TV) function were objectively scored in patients selected from an institutional cohort of pituitary adenomas. The following imaging measures of optico-chiasmatic morphology were recorded preoperatively, and at 3 months after surgery: chiasm area, mid-chiasm height (CH), optic nerve-canal bending angle (BA), and optic nerve kinking angle (ONKA).

Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome Complicating the Postoperative Clinical Course in a Child with a Suprasellar Craniopharyngioma.

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is an unusual neurological condition known to occur in the setting of various risk factors such as acute hypertension, renal failure, sepsis, multiorgan failure, autoimmune disease, and immunosuppression. Twenty cases of PRES have been previously reported in neurosurgical literature, almost all of which were attributed to either hypertension or chemotherapeutic drugs. Herein, we report a case of PRES in a neurosurgical patient in the absence of the commonly described risk factors for the syndrome.

Changes in Sinonasal and Overall Quality of Life Following Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery for Non-functioning Pituitary Adenomas: Results of A Prospective Observational Study.

Introduction: Quality of life (QOL) assessment is increasingly being recognized as an important parameter while evaluating outcomes after endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery (EETS). There has been no study that has evaluated this in the Indian context.

Objectives: We aimed to analyze sinonasal and overall QOL before and after EETS for non-functioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs), and to evaluate possible correlations between changes in QOL and various clinicoradiological, hormonal, and surgical factors.