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Table 2 Reported cases of complication of dopamine agonist therapy for prolactinoma

From: Status epilepticus induced by treatment with dopamine agonist therapy for giant prolactinoma: a case report

Author (year) [reference]

Patient age (years)/sex

PRL (μg/L) at diagnosis

CAB dosage (mg/week)

Complication of DA therapy

Location of herniation

Symptoms

Papanastasiou et al. (2014) [8]

42/M

2000

1.5

Optic chiasma

Visual field loss

Dhanwal et al. (2011) [9]

36/M

183

1.0

Frontal lobe and optic chiasma

Visual field loss, seizure

Raverot et al. (2009) [10]

64 /M

1785

1.0

Optic chiasma

Visual field loss

30 /M

660

3.0

57 /M

482

3.0

Herbera et al. (2015) [11]

59 /M

1108

1.0

Pons

Dysarthria, a left hemiplegia

  1. Abbreviations: CAB Cabergoline, DA Dopamine agonist, PRL Prolactin