Endocrine Abstracts

Gigantism is an extremely rare condition and hence the relevant literature is largely a series of case reports. We present data on patients with gigantism <20 years of age identified from Pfizer’s Acrostudy registry of patients treated with pegvisomant.Eleven patients (5M) were identified: IGF1 at diagnosis was 1.6×ULN (1.15–3.3), height +5 SDS (1.1–3.8) and age 14.5 years (4–19). The three youngest (4, 7 and 14 years) had pi...