A young man’s undiagnosed acromegaly leads to severe cardiac complications, highlighting the genetic links and diagnostic ...

It may also reduce someone's life expectancy by around 10 years. Acromegaly is often confused with gigantism, another rare condition that causes excessive growth as a result of high levels of ...

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A new study demonstrates that a benign growth on the pituitary gland causing a growth disorder called acromegaly, which in some cases may lead to gigantism, are often inherited in Northern Ireland. A ...

These new data now help to categorize children with gigantism to two phenotypes ... has been found in some (11 out of 248 sporadic) acromegaly patients, with the mutation found mostly in tumours. When ...

As a disease considered rare, acromegaly is very uncommon ... if not diagnosed in time, cause gigantism. In addition to these facial and skeletal deformities, which become very noticeable ...

Over the past decade, important progress in the treatment options for acromegaly has been made, which required an update of the 'Cortina criteria for cure' described in a consensus statement of ...

The various surgical and radiologic methods of treating acromegaly have dramatically improved over the past 75 years. In addition to the improvements in primary surgical and radiation methods ...

Patients with acromegaly require fortnightly or monthly injections of somatostatin analogs during clinic visits. The introduction of lanreotide, in the form of Somatuline Autogel ® (SCRAS ...