Evidence supporting surgery as treatment of choice for acromegaly.
Evidence supporting surgery as treatment of choice for acromegaly.
复制标题
有证据支持手术作为肢端肥大症的首选治疗方法。
DOI:
10.1677/joe.0.155s053
复制
发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
4
通讯作者:
M. Buchfelder
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
R. Fahlbusch;J. Honegger;M. Buchfelder
Within a period of fourteen years 531 operations for growth hormone (GH)-secreting adenomas were carried out. In this consecutive series 73% of the 396 patients who underwent primary transsphenoidal surgery achieved basal GH levels below 5 micrograms/l, and 58% also had an adequate suppression following an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). Slightly less favourable results were found in patients requiring surgery following an initial therapy. However, 41% of 121 such patients, who had either been operated upon previously or who had received external or internal irradiation, nevertheless achieved basal GH levels below 5 micrograms/l after the surgical reintervention. Normal suppression of serum GH during an OGTT was observed in 23% of these patients. The overall complication rate was low and tumour recurrences were very rare. To facilitate easier tumour removal, octreotide was preoperatively administered in 53 patients undergoing primary surgery of large adenomas. Recurrences were documented in a few exceptional cases. These data support our previous experience that once a normal suppression of growth hormone has been documented following surgery of pituitary adenomas, the long-term outcome is favourable.