Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Acromegaly is the consequence of excessive growth hormone (GH) secretion, usually produced by a pituitary adenoma. In the last years, statins have been implicated in the response to treatment of patients with acromegaly. Although this fact is not very clear.Objective: To analyze whether pretreatment with statins modifies the adenoma molecular phenotype of the acromegalic patients and how this changes could help to influence the response to tr...