ea0073aep842 | Late Breaking | ECE2021
Sonia Kaniuka-Jakubowska
, J Levy Miles
, Pal Aparna
, Abeyaratne Dayakshi
, Drake William
, Kyriakakis Nikolaos
, D Murray Robert
, M Orme Steve
, Gohil Shailesh
, Brook Antonia
, Leese Graham
, Márta Korbonits
, Wass John
It is known that acromegaly may be associated with headache as a significant co-morbidity. Amongst all acromegaly headache patients, there is a unique group with specific types of severe headache that fail to improve despite acromegaly therapy and are resistant to conventional analgesics, however, immediately respond to subcutaneous short-acting (SA) somatostatin analogue (SSA) treatment. We have surveyed 8 tertiary specialist UK centres and identified 18 patients (6 females) ...