Endocrinology specialist Dr Preethi Dissanayake discusses this uncommon presentation, in the latest in our series on ...

MRI was performed and showed a 5-mm lesion in the pituitary gland consistent with ... There are no clinical signs to suggest either acromegaly or Cushing's disease'. The endocrinologists were ...

When Ray Kohn started feeling pain in his knees and elbows in 2015, he attributed it to his work as a stunt driver and ...

Males and females are equally likely to be affected by the disorder. Causes: Acromegaly occurs when the pituitary gland, a small hormone-making structure in the brain, produces too much growth ...

Approximately 5% of pituitary adenomas occur in a familial ... of FIPA families and half of homogeneous acromegaly families have AIP mutations. Most AIP mutations that occur in the setting of ...

Reports of familial pituitary adenomas date back to more than a century ago, though information is sparse. The term acromegaly was first used by Pierre Marie in 1886 but patients with acromegaly have ...