Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) promotes structural myocardial changes and can trigger cardiac arrhythmias. Acromegalic patients have high prevalence of SDB and GH–IGF1 excess is related to a specific cardiomyopathy characterized by concentric cardiac hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between SDB and cardiac dysfunction on acromegalic patients.Material and methods: Observationa...