Acromegaly is a chronic systemic disease with many complications and is associated with
increased mortality when not adequately treated. Substantial advances in acromegaly …

Although acromegaly is a rare disease, the clinical, economic and health-related quality of
life (HRQoL) burden is considerable due to the broad spectrum of comorbidities as well as …

Purpose Pituitary adenomas give rise to physical and psychological symptoms, which may
persist after biochemical cure. Growing attention has been paid to quality of life (QoL) in …

Background Quality of life (QoL) in patients with acromegaly is reduced irrespective of
disease state. The contributions of multifactorial determinants of QoL in several disease …

Objective: Although a reduced quality of life (QoL) has been reported after long-term cure of
functioning pituitary adenomas, the effect of successful treatment of nonfunctioning pituitary …

A avaliação da qualidade de vida (QV) vem se tornando cada vez mais utilizada para medir
o impacto geral de doenças na vida dos indivíduos. O diabetes melito (DM) é uma doença …

Objective Acromegaly is associated with somatic disfigurements which impair self-
perception of well-being and quality of life. Nowadays, limited data are available on the …

Introduction Acromegaly, a chronic disease caused by GH/IGF-I excess, has a major impact
on quality of life (QoL). Objective To evaluate QoL of acromegalic patients in relation to …

Objective Patients with acromegaly demonstrate impaired quality of life (QoL), but data on
long‐term QoL changes in treated acromegaly are limited. This study evaluates and …

The incidence of clinically significant, nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma, requiring surgical
treatment, has not been established. According to previous studies, both surgery type and …