Guidelines for Acromegaly Management: An Update
Year: 2009
Type: review
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: The Acromegaly Consensus Group reconvened in November 2007 to update guidelines for acromegaly management. PARTICIPANTS: The meeting participants comprised 68 pituitary specialists, including neurosurgeons and endocrinologists with extensive experience treating patients with acromegaly. EVIDENCE/CONSENSUS PROCESS: Goals of treatment and the appropriate imaging and biochemical and clinical monitoring of patients with acromegaly were enunciated, based on the available published evidence. CONCLUSIONS: The group developed a consensus on the approach to managing acromegaly including appropriate roles for neurosurgery, medical therapy, and radiation therapy in the management of these patients.
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2008-2421
Institutions: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of Naples Federico II, University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine, Northwestern University, St Bartholomew's Hospital, NYU Langone Health, New York University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Université Paris-Sud, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Bicêtre Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, University of Iowa, University of Virginia, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, University of Brescia
Language: English
Subfield: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2145336503