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 ...

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 ...