Acromegaly is due to hypersecretion of growth ... Medical treatment of the disease is usually with somatostatin analogs. An open, prospective, single-center study by Maiza et al.
with noncured acromegaly. Serum IGF-I and GH levels were measured by validated assays. In total, 81 patients had active disease (IGF-I and GH both high), 68 patients had biochemically controlled ...
Colleen, from Virginia in the United States, suffers from a rare genetic condition called acromegaly or gigantism. The gene caused Charles Byrne, born in 1761 near Cookstown and known as the ...
In about 80% of families the gene causing the disease is unknown. The pituitary tumour types occurring in these families are most commonly growth hormone-secreting adenomas (causing acromegaly or ...