Kurahashi Kiyoe, Endo Itsuro, Kondo Takeshi, Morimoto Kana, Yoshida Sumiko, Kuroda Akio, Aihara Ken-Ichi, Matsuhisa Munehide, Nakajima Kohei, Mizobuchi Yoshifumi, Nagahiro Shinji, Abe Masahiro, Fukumoto Seiji
Department of Hematology, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Japan.
Diabetes Therapeutics and Research Center, Tokushima University, Japan.
Intern Med. 2017 Sep 15;56(18):2455-2461. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.8223-16. Epub 2017 Aug 21.
Acromegaly is caused by excessive growth hormone secretion, usually from pituitary adenomas. Somoatostatin analogues are widely used as primary or adjunctive therapy in the management of acromegaly. In this report, we present a case with remarkable shrinkage of a tumor after relatively short-term octreotide long-acting release (LAR) administration. During the 30-month follow-up after starting octreotide LAR, there was no recurrence of acromegaly with remarkable shrinkage of the tumor on pituitary magnetic resonance imaging. A literature review of the predictors for tumor shrinkage after the administration of somatostatin analogues in patients with acromegaly is also discussed in relation to this case.
肢端肥大症是由生长激素分泌过多引起的,通常源于垂体腺瘤。生长抑素类似物被广泛用作肢端肥大症治疗的主要或辅助疗法。在本报告中,我们呈现了一例在相对短期给予长效奥曲肽(LAR)后肿瘤显著缩小的病例。在开始使用奥曲肽LAR后的30个月随访期间,肢端肥大症未复发,垂体磁共振成像显示肿瘤显著缩小。本文还结合该病例讨论了关于肢端肥大症患者使用生长抑素类似物后肿瘤缩小预测因素的文献综述。