Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Growth hormone (GH) level is a direct marker of active residual adenoma tissue after acromegaly surgery. However, the value of early postoperative GH for prediction of surgical cure in acromegaly has not been established and therefore is not used in everyday clinical practice.Aim: The aim of our work was to study the 24-hour basal postoperative GH level and the nadir of GH level after the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) two weeks after s...