Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Acromegaly, a chronic disease caused by excess secretion of growth hormone (GH), has been known to reduce patients life expectancy. This increase in morbility and mortality is not only due to cardiovascular, respiratory or cerebrovascular disorders, but also to an increased risk for cancer.Subjects and methods: The aim of this study was to describe the associated malignant diseases among our fifty acromegalic patients. Clinical features of th...

Aim: To evaluate the response to growth hormone (GH) replacement in patients with growth hormone deficiency (GHD) after 1 year of treatment in terms of body composition, carbohydrate metabolism, lipid metabolism and quality of life.Method and patients: Twenty-eight patients with GHD with the following characteristics: 16 males, 10 with radiotherapy and 18 with panhypopituitarism, were included in our study. Body mass index (BMI) and waist hip ratio (WHR)...

Background: Cardiovascular disease is an important cause of morbidity/mortality in chronic GH hypersecretion.Aim: To evaluate cardiovascular system in a large series of patients with pituitary gigantism. Standard case report forms were used with height assessments related to local country norms. Results: 151pts (123 male) with GH-excess and abnormal growth velocity for age or final height >2SD over local norms had complete data on cardiac assessments...