Endocrine Abstracts

Context: Transsphenoidal surgery (TSS) is the primary treatment of choice in acromegaly. It is important to identify patients in whom surgical cure is not attainable at an early stage, both to inform patients on expected treatment outcome and to select those who are more likely to need additional therapy.Objective: To identify predictors for remission and relapse after TSS in acromegaly.Design: Retrospective study in three large te...

Objective: To assess the effect of somatostatin analogs (SSTA) on mortality in relation to metabolic control of acromegaly after pituitary surgery.Design: A retrospective study in two large tertiary referral centers in The Netherlands.Patients and methods: Three hundred and nineteen patients with acromegaly in whom pituitary surgery was performed as primary therapy between January 1980 and July 2017 were included (total follow-up: ...