"Acromegaly" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A condition caused by prolonged exposure to excessive HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE in adults. It is characterized by bony enlargement of the FACE; lower jaw (PROGNATHISM); hands; FEET; HEAD; and THORAX. The most common etiology is a GROWTH HORMONE-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch36, pp79-80)
| Descriptor ID |
D000172
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C05.116.132.082 C10.228.140.617.738.250.100 C19.700.355.179
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| Concept/Terms |
Acromegaly- Acromegaly
- Somatotropin Hypersecretion Syndrome (Acromegaly)
- Hypersecretion Syndrome, Somatotropin (Acromegaly)
- Hypersecretion Syndromes, Somatotropin (Acromegaly)
- Somatotropin Hypersecretion Syndromes (Acromegaly)
- Syndrome, Somatotropin Hypersecretion (Acromegaly)
- Syndromes, Somatotropin Hypersecretion (Acromegaly)
- Inappropriate GH Secretion Syndrome (Acromegaly)
- Inappropriate Growth Hormone Secretion Syndrome (Acromegaly)
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Acromegaly" by people in Profiles.
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Rogol AD, Reiter EO. Growth and Growth Hormone through the Ages: Art and Science. Horm Res Paediatr. 2022; 95(6):515-528.
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Reiter EO, Cohen LE, Rogol AD. Editorial: History of Growth Hormone: Animal to Human. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2021; 12:793272.
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Ajmal A, Haghshenas A, Attarian S, Barake M, Tritos NA, Klibanski A, Miller KK, Nachtigall LB. The effect of somatostatin analogs on vitamin D and calcium concentrations in patients with acromegaly. Pituitary. 2014 Aug; 17(4):366-73.
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Saleem TF, Santhanam P, Hamoudeh E, Hassan T, Faiz S. Acromegaly caused by growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) secreting tumor in multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN-1). W V Med J. 2012 Mar-Apr; 108(2):26-30.
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Stock JL, Warth MR, Teh BT, Coderre JA, Overdorf JH, Baumann G, Hintz RL, Hartman ML, Seizinger BR, Larsson C, Aronin N. A kindred with a variant of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 demonstrating frequent expression of pituitary tumors but not linked to the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 locus at chromosome region 11q13. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1997 Feb; 82(2):486-92.