Acromegaly is a condition that most often happens when your pea-sized pituitary gland at the base of your brain (orange) makes too much growth hormone after your body has otherwise already stopped ...

Acromegaly is caused by prolonged over­production ... information about vision from the eyes to the brain from either eye cross each other. If the tumor presses on the optic chiasm, there may ...

Only one required an eye patch for this symptom ... The various surgical and radiologic methods of treating acromegaly have dramatically improved over the past 75 years. In addition to the ...

Affected populations: Acromegaly is estimated to affect approximately 50 to 70 people out of every million. However, the true ...

Gigantism and acromegaly are growth disorders that result from excess amounts of growth hormone in the body. The conditions are similar but have several differences. Growth hormone is one of the ...

SAN DIEGO — Crinetics Pharmaceuticals announced on Sunday that its experimental drug for acromegaly, a rare and serious hormonal disorder, succeeded in a late-stage trial, bringing the San Diego ...

An AI model correctly identified 22 of 31 adults as having acromegaly strictly based on voice recordings. The model had a higher area under the receiver operating curve than a group of ...

A personalized treatment protocol was more effective for management of acromegaly -- also known as gigantism -- than the usual trial-and-error approach, the ...

Crinetics is seeking to change the way acromegaly is treated. Ahead of its hopes for a 2025 U.S. drug launch, the biotech is looking to spread awareness about how to treat the condition.

CLINICAL differentiation of active from inactive acromegaly is often difficult. At the present time a diagnosis of active disease is often based on the tenuous correlation of certain signs and ...