诊断
为诊断多发性内分泌腺瘤病 1 型(MEN 1),医生会进行体格检查,并核查您的病史和家族史。您可能需要接受血液检查和影像学检查,包括以下各项:
- 磁共振成像(MRI)。
- 计算机体层成像(CT)扫描。
- 正电子发射体层成像(PET)扫描。
- 核医学扫描。
- 胰腺内镜超声和其他扫描检查。
基因检测可以确定某人是否具有导致 MEN 1 的遗传变化。如果存在该遗传变化,那么其孩子具有遗传相同遗传变化并患 MEN 1 的风险。其父母及兄弟姐妹也有可能存在导致 MEN 1 的遗传变化。
如果在家庭成员中未发现相关的遗传变化,则无需进一步的筛查检测。但基因检测无法识别可导致 MEN 1 的所有遗传变化。如果基因检测不能确认 MEN 1,但很可能有人患有 MEN 1,那么这个人及其家庭成员仍需要密切随访,并且需要做适当的血液检查和诊断影像学检查。
治疗
在 MEN 1 中,肿瘤可能生长于甲状旁腺、胰腺和垂体腺。这些肿瘤可能导致多种医疗状况,但这些状况均可治疗。这些状况和治疗选项可能包括:
准备您的预约
You may start by seeing your primary healthcare professional. Then you may be referred to a doctor called an endocrinologist who treats conditions related to hormones. You also may be referred to a genetic counselor.
Here's some information to help you get ready for your appointment.
What you can do
When you make the appointment, ask if there's anything you need to do ahead of time. For example, you may be told not eat or drink anything except water for an amount of time before a test. This is called fasting. You also can make a list of:
- Your symptoms. Include any that don't seem related to the reason for your appointment.
- Key personal information. Include major stresses, recent life changes and family medical history.
- All medicines, vitamins or other supplements you take, including the doses.
- Questions to ask your healthcare professional.
Take a family member or friend along if you can. This person can help you remember the information you're given.
For MEN 1, some basic questions to ask your healthcare professional include:
- What's likely causing my symptoms?
- Other than the most likely cause, what are other possible causes for my symptoms?
- What tests do I need?
- Is my condition likely short-term or long-term?
- What's the best course of action?
- What are the alternatives to the main treatment you're suggesting?
- I have other health conditions. How can I best manage them together?
- Are there restrictions I need to follow?
- Should I see a specialist?
- Are there brochures or other printed material I can have? What websites do you recommend?
Feel free to ask any other questions that you think of.
What to expect from your doctor
Your healthcare professional is likely to ask you questions such as:
- Does anyone in your family have MEN 1?
- Have you or any family members been tested for changes in the MEN1 gene?
- If you have symptoms, when did they start?
- Are your symptoms ongoing or do they happen once in a while?
- How severe are your symptoms?
- What, if anything, seems to make your symptoms better?
- What, if anything, seems to make your symptoms worse?
What you can do in the meantime
If you have symptoms, try not to do anything that seems to make them worse.