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DOI: 10.1590/S0004-27302007000400003
Growth hormone quantification in serum is essential for confirming or ruling out its excess. The absence of clinical criteria sufficiently sensitive to evaluate the treatment success enables GH as the key diagnostic procedure and for that, its measurements must be done in a reliable way and must allow uniform interpretation. Several different biochemical criteria for remission have been suggested in the past, including a random GH measurement less than 2.5 µg/l, mean GH value from a day curve less than […]
Keywords: Acromegaly; diagnosis; Growth hormone; Immunoassays