A preoperative insulinogenic index >0.5 could predict restoration of normal glucose metabolism in Japanese patients after surgical cure of acromegaly, report researchers from Tokyo. The alternative ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In an article published in Clinical Endocrinology, Christos Papaioannou, MSc (Hons), a medical student in the ...

Learn about the emotional impact of chronic monitoring in acromegaly, signs of treatment fatigue, and strategies for managing ...

Learn how to manage persistent acromegaly symptoms after normal lab results, including monitoring, causes of lingering issues, and coordinated care strategies.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The rise in total ghrelin found to accompany some remaining cardiovascular risk markers and adiposity increase ...

Surgery is often the first recommended treatment for acromegaly, a rare condition in which the pituitary gland at the base of the brain produces too much growth hormone — usually due to a noncancerous ...

A new Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for the diagnosis and treatment of acromegaly, a rare condition caused by excess growth hormone in the blood, has been issued. The Endocrine Society today ...

Acromegaly is an endocrine disorder characterized by excessive soft tissue and bone growth, and is caused by excessive levels of growth hormone secreted by the pituitary gland. These excessive hormone ...

Acromegaly is an insidious disease that, in most cases, is a result of a pituitary adenoma that hypersecretes growth hormone (GH). The goals of therapy are to control excess GH secretion and limit, if ...

The US Endocrine Society has issued a clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of acromegaly, a rare condition caused by excess growth hormone in the blood. The guidance, which is ...

Sultan Kosen will have surgery Thursday to stop the abnormal growth spurts that have made him the tallest man in the world. The 27-year-old from Turkey is more than 8 feet tall as a result of a rare ...

Acromegaly can cause several complications if left untreated. These complications, like the symptoms of the disease, are gradual in onset and may take months or years to develop. Severe headache may ...