It may also reduce someone's life expectancy by around 10 years. Acromegaly is often confused with gigantism, another rare ...

Reports of familial pituitary adenomas date back to more than a century ago, though information is sparse. The term acromegaly was first used by Pierre Marie in 1886 but patients with acromegaly have ...

A new study demonstrates that a benign growth on the pituitary gland causing a growth disorder called acromegaly, which in some cases may lead to gigantism, are often inherited in Northern Ireland. A ...

Biochemical control of acromegaly in noncured patients is usually defined as serum growth hormone (GH) levels <2.0 µg/l, plus normal-for-age serum levels of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I).