[The amenorrhea-galactorrhea syndrome. Clinical and therapeutic aspects of 5 treated cases].

The behaviour of plasma prolactin in response to various pharmacological tests has been examined together with that of other hypophyseal function parameters in five patients suffering from amenorrhoea-galactorrhoea syndrome. Evaluation of plasma prolactin and hypophyseal tropinic reserve levels did not prove sufficient to discriminate between functional and organic forms of hyperprolactinaemia. A woman patient was submitted to neurosurgical operation for removal of a hypophyseal microadenoma. The other patients were treated medically with 2-alpha-bromoergocryptin which produced quick normalization of prolactinaemia with restoration of normal memstrual cycles and cessation of galactorrhoea.