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

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).

Acromegaly is often waved off as ‘gigantism’, but what many fail to see is the layers of pain and suffering that engulf those afflicted by it. NOBODY called him Little Robert. Sure ...

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 ...

The various surgical and radiologic methods of treating acromegaly have dramatically improved over the past 75 years. In addition to the improvements in primary surgical and radiation methods ...

Girls are more often seen than boys, but patients from both sexes have been described (Figure 1). Figure 1: Familial and sporadic cases of gigantism and male and female growth patterns due to Xq26.3 ...