Improvement of cardiac function after treatment with octreotide followed by trans-sphenoidal surgery in an acromegalic patient who presented with congestive heart failure.

Japanese heart journal

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 69-77

  Shimakura, Atsuhiro ^a   Miyakoshi, Hisatsugu ^a   Ohkuwa, Hitoshi ^a   Kitabayashi, Masahiro ^a   Komai, Toshio ^a   Hisada, Azusa ^a   Aoki, Koichiro ^a   Sakagami, Satoru ^a   Kobayashi, Ken ichi ^a   Takata, Shigeo ^a  

^a Kouseiren Takaoka Hospital   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONE; OCTREOTIDE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DRUG EFFECT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; GROWTH HORMONE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HORMONES; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; OCTREOTIDE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 18244419027     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.43.69     Document Type: Article

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