Acromegaly in practice of clinician: modern aspects of diagnosis and treatment
Acromegaly is a severe neuroendocrine disease leading to different complications, affecting all organs and body systems. The disease is characterized by progressive disability and shortened life expectancy. The mortality of patients with acromegaly in the absence of timely diagnosis and adequate treatment exceeds the general population level by almost 10 times, and increases with the duration of the disease; the same is applicable to the cardiovascular mortality of patients with acromegaly [1]. Over the past decade, a large number of data on prevalence, clinical manifestations, diagnostic tests and effective approaches to the treatment of this disease have appeared. But, despite this, acromegaly is more often diagnosed already at the stage of development of complications. For the timely diagnosis of the disease in the early stages, it would be nice to expand the insight of therapists and other physicians into the aspects of diagnosing this serious disease, approaches to treatment and monitoring the effectiveness of the therapy.