[Prolactin in chronic alcoholic liver diseases with and without gynecomastia].

Abstract

The Authors, after having examined the factors responsible for the hyperprolactinemia in the cirrhotic, confirm the lack of a relationship between the increase in the prolactinic reserve and gynecomastia and between the amount of the prolactinic reserve and the degree of liver disorder. While hyperestrinism and the false transmitters lost most of their pathogenetic importance, other factors such as GABA, the Serotonin and the VIP, offered a new pathogenetic prospective. The prolactin reserve was studied in 63 patients affected by cirrhosis and in 25 affected by fibrosis and hepatic fibrosteatosis, pointing out an increase in the prolactin reserve in 61% of cirrhotic patients and an absence of pathological reports in patients affected by fibrotic hepatopathies. These data confirm the low pathogenetic responsability to be strictly ascribed to ethanol and the preminent role of liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension in the prolactin turnover.

• Authors: A Nardoni, E Marchetti, O Geatti, V Di Piazza, G Rossi, P Cedaro
• Journal: Minerva medica (Minerva Med) Vol. 76 Issue 1-2 Pg. 37-42 (Jan 14 1985) ISSN: 0026-4806 [Print] Italy
• Vernacular Title: La prolattina nelle epatopatie alcoliche croniche con e senza ginecomastia.
• PMID: 3883240 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Pituitary Hormone-Releasing Hormones
• Serotonin
• gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
• Prolactin

Topics

• Fatty Liver, Alcoholic (blood, complications)
• Gynecomastia (etiology)
• Humans
• Hypertension, Portal (etiology)
• Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic (blood, complications)
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Pituitary Hormone-Releasing Hormones (blood)
• Prolactin (blood, metabolism)
• Serotonin (blood)
• gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (blood)