Guidelines for acromegaly management: an update

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2009 May;94(5):1509-17. doi: 10.1210/jc.2008-2421. Epub 2009 Feb 10.

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.

Publication types

  • Guideline
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Acromegaly / complications
  • Acromegaly / drug therapy
  • Acromegaly / etiology
  • Acromegaly / radiotherapy
  • Acromegaly / surgery
  • Acromegaly / therapy*
  • Biomarkers
  • Humans
  • Monitoring, Physiologic
  • Pituitary Gland / surgery

Substances

  • Biomarkers