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Management of Diabetes Mellitus in Acromegaly and Cushing's Disease with Focus on Pasireotide Therapy: A Narrative Review. [PDF]
Patients suffering from acromegaly and Cushing’s Disease (CD) face the risk of several clinical complications. The onset of diabetes mellitus (DM) is among the most important: exposure to elevated growth hormone or cortisol levels is associated with ...
De Fano M +4 more
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Pasireotide as first line medical therapy for selected patients with acromegaly. [PDF]
Olarescu NC +6 more
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Cardiometabolic Risk in Acromegaly: A Review With a Focus on Pasireotide
Acromegaly is a disease due to chronic GH excess and a consequent rise in IGF-1 levels. This rare endocrine condition is associated with metabolic alterations such as hyperglycaemia, dyslipidaemia, and systemic arterial hypertension, which, in addition ...
Soraya Puglisi +9 more
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Pasireotide treatment for severe congenital hyperinsulinism due to a homozygous ABCC8 mutation [PDF]
ABCC8 and KCJN11 mutations cause the most severe diazoxide-resistant forms of congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI). Somatostatin analogues are considered as secondline treatment in diazoxide-unresponsive cases.
Christiaan F. Mooij +8 more
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Successful Volume Control of Invasive Pituitary Adenoma Tumor With Pasireotide: A New Horizon for a Challenging Disease. [PDF]
Elhadd T +3 more
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Objective: Pasireotide is a second-generation somatostatin receptor ligand (SRL) used for treating acromegaly. Its clinical use is limited by adverse effe cts on glucose homeostasis. The aim of this study was to evaluate longitudinal changes in beta-cell
Peter Wolf +6 more
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Context Acromegaly is a rare, chronic, debilitating disorder caused by prolonged hypersecretion of growth hormone (GH) and overproduction of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I).
M. Gadelha +8 more
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BackgroundAllogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT) is an often curative intent treatment, however it is associated with significant gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity and treatment related mortality. Graft-versus-host disease is a significant
Sendhilnathan Ramalingam +28 more
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Risk factors and management of pasireotide-associated hyperglycemia in acromegaly
Pasireotide, a multireceptor-targeted somatostatin analog with highest affinity for somatostatin receptor subtype (SST) 5, has demonstrated superio r efficacy over the SST2-preferential somatostatin analogs octreotide and lanreotide.
Mônica R Gadelha +10 more
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Evaluation of PepT1 (SLC15A1) Substrate Characteristics of Therapeutic Cyclic Peptides
The human peptide transporter hPepT1 (SLC15A1), physiologically transporting dipeptides and tripeptides generated during food digestion, also plays a role in the uptake of small bioactive peptides and peptide-like drugs.
Gzona Bajraktari-Sylejmani +5 more
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