Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Alterations in glucose homeostasis and diabetes mellitus (DM) are the most common metabolic comorbidities in acromegaly. DM has been reported in 16–56% of patients with acromegaly. It is estimated that 20% of patients with acromegaly have developed DM before the formal diagnosis of acromegaly. We report a case of a patient with acromegaly secondary to a pituitary macroadenoma who presented with diabetes.Case report: A 47- year-old fema...