Endocrine Abstracts

Acromegaly is a rare syndrome categorized by extreme excretion of growth hormone via a pituitary adenoma, happening everywhere in the world also in Iraqi population. Practically all conditions of acromegaly are produced by a benign tumor in the pituitary that creates much growth hormone. In additions, some tumors in the body may yield an element known as growth hormone releasing hormone which lead the pituitary to oversecrion of growth hormone. So this research proposed to obs...

Patients and methods: 190 acromegalic patients are registered in the National Diabetes Center, 60 were enrolled in the study. They were randomly selected by simple sampling technique according to their scheduled visits monthly to receive - long acting repeatable octreotide injections (LAR).Results: Table 1 Demographic data of the enrolled acromegalic patients.</c...