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Pituitary gigantism

Goldenberg N, Racine MS, Thomas P, Degnan B, Chandler W, Barkan A. Treatment of pituitary gigantism with the growth hormone receptor antagonist pegvisomant. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008 93 2953-6. [Pg.918]

Growth hormone excess in children is characterized by extremely rapid linear growth (gigantism). The condition is rare and is most often due to a pituitary tumour. Other causes of tall. stature in children include ... [Pg.143]

Gigantism in children is caused by increased GH secretion, usually from a pituitary tumour. Acromegaly is the consequence of increased GH secretion in adults. [Pg.143]

Somatostatin and its synthetic analogs are used clinically to treat a variety of secretory neoplasms such as GH-secreting tumors of the pituitary. Such tumors can cause gigantism if growth hormone is secreted in excess before the closure of the... [Pg.786]

Gigantism is a condition marked by excessive growth because of the secretion of a growth hormone by a pituitary tumor. Trijntje Keever, born in 1616 in the Netherlands, suffered from the condition. She was the tallest woman in recorded history. When she died at age seventeen from cancer, her height was 8 feet, 4 inches. [Pg.643]

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