Acromegaly

It is a disease that occurs when body starts to produce too many growth hormones; it is actually hormonal disorder which occurs in the adulthood. It is when pituitary gland produces hormones that grow your body especially hands and feet. It’s a Greek word means extremist. It usually happened in the middle-age men and women. There are 4676 cases/million that means there are in one year 116.9 new cases in a million of population.

Symptoms of this disease would appear in any stage of life. It can be vary and would develop gradually. These hormones often called growth hormones GH. When such hormones grow in the body they grow larger than normal.

Due to the fact that this disease is very uncommon and it effects very gradually which in result causes rapid growth and cant be diagnosed at the early stage. If not recognized at the early stage could cause to severe illness and could be life threatening. Certainly available treatments would make considerable improvement which would reduce the enlargement of the features.

Hence, it known treatment is surgery which an effective treatment. This surgery had two methods one is producing a hormones name End nasal Transphenoidal. which is to reach out to pituitary through nasal cavity wall. And the second is Transphenoidal surgery, which a slit is made just beneath the upper lisp’s gum... Endonasal Transphenoidal is less persistent which has the shorter recover time as of old method of Transphenoidal, likely of removing the entire tumor which reduces the side effects. So the Endonasal Transphenoidal surgery is vastly used as compare to the Transphenoidal surgery or radiostatic neurosurgery or the medicinal therapy of reducing the remain effects of the tumor.