Clinical use of pre- and postsurgical evaluation of abnormal GH responses in acromegaly.

Abstract:

:The criteria by which acromegalic patients are considered "cured" after surgical therapy are still controversial. Since the abnormal growth hormone (GH) increase after the administration of some agents has been demonstrated to be characteristic of the tumoral somatotrophs, its disappearance after surgery may be taken as an index of the complete removal of the tumor. Serum GH increases after thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH, 200 micrograms intravenously), gonadotropin-releasing hormone (Gn-RH, 100 micrograms intravenously), and sulpiride (100 mg intramuscularly) injected during dopamine infusion (DA-Slp test), were evaluated in 68 acromegalic patients before and after transnasosphenoidal adenomectomy, and every 12 to 18 months during a follow-up period of 6 months to 11 years (average 42 months). Forty-two patients had abnormal responses to at least one test before surgery: 32 out of 68 (47%) to TRH, six out of 40 (15%) to Gn-RH, and 20 out of 28 (71%) to the DA-Slp test. Of 18 patients who underwent all three tests, 78% had abnormal responses to at least one of them. Twenty-three patients became unresponsive after surgery, and none of them had a recurrence or became abnormally responsive again during the follow-up period. Three out of six patients with postoperative serum GH levels between 5.1 and 10 ng/ml and three out of six patients with postoperative serum GH levels between 2.1 and 5 ng/ml remained abnormally responsive: one of them relapsed 1 year after the operation. The abnormal responses were lost in all 11 patients whose postoperative serum GH levels were below 2 ng/ml, and abnormal responses were maintained in all the patients in whom surgery was considered unsuccessful because postoperative serum GH levels were higher than 10 ng/ml. The TRH, Gn-RH, and DA-Slp tests should thus be considered useful tools in verifying the total removal of an adenoma. The reappearance of active acromegaly in the patient with low postoperative GH levels, who was still responsive to TRH, should be regarded as a reactivation and not a true recurrence of the disease.

journal_name

J Neurosurg

journal_title

Journal of neurosurgery

authors

Arosio M,Giovanelli MA,Riva E,Nava C,Ambrosi B,Faglia G

doi

10.3171/jns.1983.59.3.0402

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1983-09-01 00:00:00

pages

402-8

issue

3

eissn

0022-3085

issn

1933-0693

journal_volume

59

pub_type

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