Endocrine Abstracts

There are at least 60 reports of pregnancy and acromegaly. The maternal and foetal morbidity relates to associated diabetes mellitus and hypertension rather than maternal growth hormone excess. A 32-year-old Asian female who spoke no English, was noted to have acromegalic features during a hospital admission for pneumonia. She was 6 weeks pregnant and had been recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Acromegaly was confirmed with GH nadir 105 mU/l during 75 g OGTT and...