Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Cardiovascular diseases are the most common comorbidities in acromegaly. Potential parameters in pathology of cardiovascular comorbidities are changes in levels of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) as well as body composition parameters.Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine morphological and functional parameters of the cardiovascular system by echocardiography and to assess its relationship with disease acti...

Background: The aim of our study was to asses changes in the cross sectional area (CSA) of the median nerve by ultrasound in newly diagnosed acromegalic patients 1 year after treatment of acromegaly (transsphenoidal surgery, somatostatine analogues).Patients and methods: The study included 30 newly diagnosed acromegalic patients (18 females and 12 males) and 30 healthy controls (18 females and 12 males) matched for age, gender and body mass index. Clinic...