The sella is in the brain or actually located at the base of your brain and is a bony structure which protects and surrounds the pituitary gland.
The most common sellar tumor is a pituitary adenoma which is the most common sellar mass that is found in adults.
In children the most common sellar tumor is a craniopharyngioma.
Empty sella does not always require treatment especially if your pituitary gland is working and functioning as it should.
If the pituitary gland is not working as it should then the empty sella may require treatment.
The possible complications of empty sella syndrome are problems with vision and leaking of cerebrospinal fluid from the nose.
However empty sella syndrome rarely causes any complications or serious problems.
Empty sella or empty sella syndrome can cause dizziness and even vertigo.
Empty sella can cause tiredness and fatigue as well as high blood pressure and headaches.
Empty Sella can be reversed in rare cases although not all cases of empty sella are reversible but empty sella is not fatal or life threatening.
Empty sella syndrome has a very good prognosis as empty sella syndrome is not a life threatening condition and is treatable with hormone medications and sometimes even surgery.
Empty sella syndrome is characterized by a shrunken pituitary gland or even a flattened pituitary gland.
Empty sella can cause dizziness as well as vertigo, and hearing loss as well.
Empty sella can cause vision problems.
Empty sella does cause headaches and headaches are one of the most frequent symptoms of empty sella.
The symptoms of the sella syndrome are headaches, high blood pressure and in some cases leaking of cerebrospinal fluid from your nose or vision problems.
An enlarged sella means you have empty sella syndrome which is a rare disorder that is characterized by the enlargement or malformation of your sella turcica which is a structure in the skull.
A sella tumor is a growth near the part of your brain known as the sella turcica.
Pituitary adenomas are the most common sellar mass found in adults, whereas craniopharyngiomas account for the majority of pediatric sellar masses.
The diagnosis of sellar lesions involves a multidisciplinary effort; detailed endocrinologic, ophthalmologic, and neurologic tests are critical.
The sella is at the base of the brain and is a bony structure which surrounds and protects the pituitary gland.
The anatomy of the sella is a saddle like bony formation that is on the upper surface of the body of your sphenoid bone.
Your anterior border of your sella turcica is represented by the tuberculum sellae and your posterior border by your dorsum sellae.
A J shaped sella is a sella that is shallow, elongated or even boot shaped sella turcica with an elongated anterior recess that extends below the anterior clinoid process and it is usually seen in optic chiasm glioma, mild hydrocephalus, anchondroplasia, mucopolysaccharidoses.
The types of sella are flat, round and oval with oval and round types of sella being the most common types of sella.
The hormones that empty sella affects are the thyroid stimulating hormone TSH.
The thyroid stimulating hormone stimulates the thyroid which is an endocrine gland that is located in the front of the neck under your skin to release the thyroid hormone.
Empty sella is not thought to be inherited as there is no clear genetic association that is known to predispose someone to develop empty sella.
Empty sella is a disorder that is caused by incompetence of your diaphragma sellae and the resultant herniation of the CSF into the sella turcica.
Sella syndrome is also known as empty sella syndrome which is a condition where the pituitary gland becomes flattened or shrinks.
Your pituitary gland is a gland that is attached to the base of your brain and secretes hormones that regulate your body's balance of many hormones to control growth, metabolism and development of the body.
Another name for empty sella syndrome is pituitary gland syndrome.
Empty sella can cause adrenal insufficiency which is also secondary to decreased stimulation by the adrenocorticotrophic hormone.
The conditions that are associated with empty sella are Sheehan syndrome, trauma or injury to the head, treated pituitary tumors, infections, surgery on the pituitary region, radiation therapy and injuries to the head.
The severe symptoms of empty sella syndrome are Infertility, no menstrual periods or irregular periods, low sex drive, impotence in men, fatigue, high blood pressure and and headaches.
Empty sella can cause dizziness as well as vertigo and even hearing loss in some cases.
Empty sella can also cause tiredness and fatigue as well as high blood pressure and headaches.
Other symptoms of empty sella are low sex drive, irregular menstrual periods, impotence and infertility.
The percentage of people that have an empty sella are 5.% to 12% of people.
Empty sella syndrome is a rare condition.
You can fix empty sella syndrome through surgery and most often hormone medications.
Hormone medications are the most common first line of treatment for fixing empty sella syndrome and surgery is done as a last resort to fix empty sella syndrome.
The doctor that treats empty sella syndrome is an endocrinologist who specializes in treating disorders and conditions of the endocrine system which is the network of hormone producing glands in the body.
Empty sella is suggestive of a tumor or enlarged sella turcica.
Empty sella can occur if you have an enlarged sella turcica which is a bone structure which is where your pituitary gladn sits at the base of your brain.
It's not really known what causes primary empty sella although secondary empty sella can be caused by surgery, radiation therapy or injury.
Primary empty sella syndrome however most often occurs when one of the layers (arachnoid) covering the outside of your brain bulges down into the sella and presses on the pituitary.
And secondary empty sella syndrome most often occurs when the sella is empty because the pituitary gland has been damaged by a tumor or Radiation therapy.
Empty sella syndrome isn't life-threatening and it is treatable with hormone medications and sometimes surgery.
Having an empty sella show up on your brain imaging scan is also not life-threatening.
If you're diagnosed with empty sella syndrome, your care starts with specialists in endocrinology and metabolic diseases who provide expert evaluation and management of hormonal and glandular disorders, including empty sella syndrome.
When the pituitary gland shrinks or becomes flattened, it cannot be seen on an MRI scan.
This makes the area of the pituitary gland look like an "empty sella."
But the sella is not actually empty.
It is often filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
CSF is fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.
Empty sella syndrome is a condition in which the pituitary gland shrinks or becomes flattened.
The pituitary is a gland attached to the base of the brain.
The pituitary secretes hormones that regulate the body's balance of many hormones controlling growth, development, and metabolism of the body.
Empty sella syndrome (ESS) is a rare and treatable condition that happens when your pituitary gland becomes flattened.
ESS causes certain symptoms such as frequent headaches and hormone imbalances.
Empty sella syndrome may cause no symptoms at all and seldom causes serious symptoms.
About half of those affected have headaches, and some people have high blood pressure as well.
In rare cases, there is leaking of the cerebrospinal fluid from the nose or problems with vision.