{"title":"Treatment with Long-Acting Somatostatin Analogues in Patients with Acromegaly: When and How.","authors":"Luigi Simone Aversa, Michela Sibilla, Nunzia Prencipe, Valentina Gasco, Ezio Ghigo, Silvia Grottoli","doi":"10.1159/000539990","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Somatostatin and its analogs have been for years a mainstay treatment for a variety of hypersecretory conditions and neoplasms of the endocrine system. This chapter summarizes their pharmacological properties, their indication in the context of acromegaly, and the best way to handle this class of drugs for the treatment of the patient with acromegaly.</p>","PeriodicalId":520300,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of hormone research","volume":"55 ","pages":"182-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Frontiers of hormone research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000539990","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Somatostatin and its analogs have been for years a mainstay treatment for a variety of hypersecretory conditions and neoplasms of the endocrine system. This chapter summarizes their pharmacological properties, their indication in the context of acromegaly, and the best way to handle this class of drugs for the treatment of the patient with acromegaly.