Surgical and Pharmacological Outcomes in Acromegaly: Real-Life Data From the Mexican Acromegaly Registry.

Context: Acromegaly registries constitute a valuable source of therapeutic outcome information in real-life.

Objective: The objective of this work is to analyze surgical and pharmacological outcomes in the Mexican Acromegaly Registry (MAR).

Design And Methods: Data were extracted from the MAR informatic platform.

Surgical-pharmacological interactions in the treatment of acromegaly.

Introduction: Acromegaly requires a multimodal treatment approach that includes surgery by an expert pituitary neurosurgeon, pharmacological treatment with one or more of the available drugs and radiation therapy. These treatment alternatives are not mutually exclusive but rather complement each other when properly indicated in the individual patient. In this review, we summarize and analyze the available data concerning the choice of the surgical approach (microscopy vs.