Affected populations: Acromegaly is estimated to affect approximately 50 to 70 people out of every million. However, the true figure may be higher, as the symptoms develop slowly and thus may go ...

George Moanaroa believes the spiritual world of Te Ao Māori and the medical world joined forces to save his life. Moanaroa ...

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 ...

with acromegaly. Patients received somatostatin analogs as primary therapy. They were assessed clinically, biologically and radiologically at the time of diagnosis, 6 months after starting ...

Not all subjects with the gene would develop the disease, but in the subjects where it does develop (20-30%), early diagnosis is key to successful treatment. These data suggest that testing of young ...