Abstract

PEREIRA DESPAIGNE, Olga Lidia; PALAY DESPAIGNE, Maricela Silvia  and  RODRIGUEZ CASCARET, Argenis. Acromegaly: diagnosis and treatment. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.3, pp. 403-416. ISSN 1029-3019.

Acromegaly is a multisystem chronic disease, of low prevalence which diagnosis and treatment should be adapted to the current realities. Nevertheless, it continues being an underdiagnosed disease with a clinical course of high mortality rate, generally due to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular causes, which reduce the life expectancy of the person suffering it. In this work, the forms of presentation of hypersomatotropism, the methods of diagnosis and the therapeutic modalities are described, that include the surgical one, the pharmacological one and the radiotherapy

Keywords : acromegaly; hypersomatotropism; hormonal diagnosis.

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