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Right Between the Eyes: Pituitary Tumors/Disorders in Primary And Urgent Care (Don’t Miss Them!)
Recorded for 2024 National Conference
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Activity Duration| Content Expires: | July 15, 2025 (11:55 p.m. CT)
CE for this activity will not be available after this date.
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This CE activity was recorded for the 2024 AANP National Conference.  | This activity includes closed captioning. |
| Delivery Note: The content for this activity was previously presented during the 2024 AANP National Conference. If you already completed the content of this activity while attending the live or virtual conference, you should not complete this content a second time. Learners should only complete ONE delivery-method to earn credit. Completing multiple delivery options for the same activity is considered duplicate credit for the same content and will not be accepted by regulatory bodies. |
Overview
While estimated to occur in 14% to 22% within the general population, most pituitary adenomas go undiagnosed. Typically, these tumors were found incidentally on imaging modalities obtained for other reasons. The insidious nature of these tumors, smaller size, confusing clinical picture and hormonal presentation, as well as their incidental appearance, can lead to delays in diagnosis and referral to endocrine, ophthalmology and neurosurgery. This session will offer expert tips to help heighten awareness to the presence of symptomatic pituitary disease, such as prolactin, ACTH, growth hormone, or TSH-secreting tumors, large adenomas with mass effects or sudden pituitary apoplexy. Participants will learn how to assess for relevant clinical biomarkers of a pituitary tumor, identify related hormone excess or deficiency, and order appropriate diagnostic studies. Don't let a missed diagnosis hit your patients between the eyes!
Objectives
- Promptly identify patients presenting with clinical manifestations of a pituitary disorder.
- Initiate appropriate assessment and diagnostic priorities for a secreting- pituitary adenoma, pituitary failure, or empty sella turcica syndrome.
- Initiate appropriate endocrine or neurosurgical referrals and priority medical interventions for selected pituitary adenomas, pituitary failure and empty sella turcica syndrome.
Speaker
Christine Kessler, MN, ACCNS, ANP-BC, BC-ADM, FAANP
Disclosure
This program was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies.
The speaker has the following disclosures:- Novo Nordisk - Advisory board /speaker: Obesity, T2DM
- Acella - Speaker: Desiccated Thyroid extract
DisclaimerIndividuals who have contributed to the CE Center (content originally from the 2024 AANP National Conference) were carefully selected for their knowledge and experience in the subject area under review. This presentation is informational only and may contain opinions of the authors from their personal experience that do not necessarily express the opinions of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). The activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings. Clinical practice is a constantly changing process and new information becomes available every day. Neither AANP nor the contributing individuals can warrant that the material will continue to be accurate, nor do they warrant that the material is completely free of errors upon publication. Attendees and participants should appraise the information presented critically and are encouraged to consult appropriate resources for any product or device mentioned in this program.
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1.08 Contact Hour(s) of CE,
0.54 of which may be applied towards Pharmacology
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