Patients with acromegaly make too much growth hormone, which causes them to grow disproportionately large bones, organs and ...

The causes, symptoms, and treatment of acromegaly, a rare disease that causes your hands, feet, face, and other parts of your body to swell and grow too much.

The main difference between gigantism and acromegaly is when it occurs. Gigantism occurs in children before puberty. Acromegaly happens after puberty during adulthood.

Crinetics Pharmaceuticals announced its experimental drug for acromegaly succeeded in a Phase 3 trial.

CLINICAL differentiation of active from inactive acromegaly is often difficult. At the present time a diagnosis of active disease is often based on the tenuous correlation of certain signs and symp ...

Bragg-peak proton hypophysectomy was used in 22 acromegalic patients. Of 14 followed for two to 36 months, size of hands, feet or face decreased in nine. Variable improvement took place in headache ...

Acromegaly is a rare, progressive disease, typically caused by a tumor of the pituitary gland producing excess growth hormone and stimulating increased insulin growth factor-1 (IGF-1) levels.

An investigational treatment for acromegaly -- also known as gigantism -- was safe and boosted biochemical control, according to final topline findings of the phase III ACROINNOVA 2 study. Meeting ...

New research has taken a significant step in terms of research and care for acromegaly, a rare disease caused by an excess of growth hormone secretion, which occurs in over 99% of cases due to a ...

Oczyesa® (CAM2029) is a ready-to-use, long-acting subcutaneous depot of octreotide indicated for maintenance treatment in adult patients with acromegaly who have responded to and tolerated ...