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Current and future therapy of acromegaly

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2016

Abstract

Acromegaly is a rare disease caused by overproduction of growth hormone, which significantly worsens quality of life and increases morbidity and mortality of patients. Modern specialized surgery, radiosurgery, radiotherapy and pharmacotherapy substantially improved therapeutical possibilities and the perspective of patients.

Current thera-peutic modalities enable to create individually tailored therapy for the specific patient and suppress the acromegalic activity. Novel forms of currently used active substances and even conceptually new forms of pharmacotherapy are under preparation and testing (eg. octreotide in capsules, CAM2029, Somatoprim, ATL1103).