The specific features of the course of acromegaly in old age and possibilities of somatulin treatment

Abstract

Acromegaly is a severe neuroendocrine disease caused by chronic excessive production of growth hormone. There are 50–70 cases of this disease per 1 million people. In the vast majority of cases, the cause of the disease is a pituitary adenoma from somatotrophic cells. With the advent in clinical practice of prolonged analogues of somatostatin, endocrinologists have new therapeutic options. In the article we present a clinical case of the patient with the diagnosis: acromegaly, active form; Endosuprasellar pituitary adenoma (somatotropinoma); Hypopituitarism (secondary adrenal insufficiency, secondary hypothyroidism); Chronic pyelonephritis in the acute phase; Hypertension of the II stage, ischemic heart disease, angina pectoris II functional class; Common atherosclerosis with a primary lesion of the aorta, coronary vessels and cerebral vessels.