Endocrine Abstracts

Reports of pregnancy in acromegalic women are uncommon.Case 1: Patient K., 25-year-old., 01/04/2008 – transsphenoidal adenomectomy in connection with active acromegaly (GH/OGTT – 47.2–64.0–38.0–29.6–28.7 ng/ml; macroadenoma 19×14×12 mm with compression of optic chiasm). Postoperative remission of the disease, recovery of menstrual function without additional therapy. At the end of August 2008 the patient became pre...

Acromegaly is frequently associated with tumor development of various organs, mostly with cancer of colon and thyroid gland while the development of gastric cancer is a very rare condition.We observed a 33-years-old woman with mild clinical signs of acromegaly. The diagnosis was confirmed by laboratory tests (increased levels of IGF1 and growth hormone – 573 ng/ml and 9.8 ng/ml respectively) and MRI (supra-infra-latero-cellary pituitary adenoma, 9&#...