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 ...

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 ...

Reports of familial pituitary adenomas date back to more than a century ago, though information is sparse. The term acromegaly was first used by Pierre Marie in 1886 but patients with acromegaly have ...

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 ...

Biochemical control of acromegaly in noncured patients is usually defined as serum growth hormone (GH) levels <2.0 µg/l, plus normal-for-age serum levels of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I).