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Guidelines for acromegaly management: an update.

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2009 Feb 10;

Authors: Melmed S, Colao A, Barkan A, Molitch M, Grossman AB, Kleinberg D, Clemmons D, Chanson P, Laws E, Schlechte J, Vance ML, Ho K, Giustina A

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.

PMID: 19208732 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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