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Growth Hormone and Related Disorders: From Clinics to Diagnosis

  • 1st Edition, Volume 131 - March 30, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Marta Araujo Castro
  • Language: English

Growth Hormone and Related Disorders: From Clinics to Diagnosis, Volume 131 covers various topics related to growth hormone and its associated disorders when there is a GH excess… Read more

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Description

Growth Hormone and Related Disorders: From Clinics to Diagnosis, Volume 131 covers various topics related to growth hormone and its associated disorders when there is a GH excess, including their pathophysiology, clinical presentation and diagnosis. Chapters in this new release include Growth hormone: synthesis and regulation, GH and GnRH-gonadotropin secretion, Co-Secreting Pituitary Adenomas in Acromegaly: Classification, Diagnosis, and Treatment Strategies, Growth hormone and glycemic metabolism, Acromegaly: pathophysiology and etiology, Acromegaly: biochemical diagnosis, Acromegaly and clinical manifestations, and more.

Additional sections discuss Gigantism, Acromegaly and genetics, Molecular markers of response to medical therapy in acromegaly, and Acromegaly and histopathology.

Key features

  • Provides the latest information on growth hormones and associated disorders
  • Covers Acromegaly, a rare, adult-onset endocrine disorder caused by GH hypersecretion by the pituitary gland
  • Presents the latest information Gigantism, a rare condition that occurs in children and it is caused by the overproduction of GH before the growth plates of the long bones have closed

Readership

Endocrinology, Genetics, Internal Medicine, Clinical Biochemistry and Neurosurgery.

Table of contents

1. Growth hormone: synthesis and regulation
Pedro Iglesias

2. GH and GnRH-gonadotropin secretion
Adriana De Sousa Lages and Valentim Lopes

3. Co-Secreting Pituitary Adenomas in Acromegaly: Classification, Diagnosis, and Treatment Strategies
Betina Biagetti Sr. and Marta Araujo-Castro

4. Growth hormone and glycemic metabolism
Eider Pascual-Corrales

5. Acromegaly: pathophysiology and etiology
Frederic Castinetti

6. Acromegaly: biochemical diagnosis
Luís Miguel Cardoso

7. Acromegaly and clinical manifestations
Rocio Villar-Taibo, Eva Fernández Rodríguez and Ignacio Bernabeu Moron

8. Gigantism
Pedro Marques, Sara Donato and Catarina Regala

9. Acromegaly and genetics
Luís Antonio Castaño

10. Molecular markers of response to medical therapy in acromegaly
Manel Puig

11. Acromegaly and histopathology
Iban Aldecoa

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 131
  • Published: March 30, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editor

MC

Marta Araujo Castro

Marta Araujo-Castro, MD, PhD, is a Consultant Endocrinologist in the Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition at Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal and a researcher at the Ramón y Cajal Health Research Institute (IRYCIS) in Madrid, Spain. She coordinates the hospital's Pituitary and Adrenal Unit, where she leads multidisciplinary clinical care for patients with complex endocrine disorders. Dr. Araujo-Castro obtained her medical degree and completed her specialty training in Endocrinology and Nutrition in Spain. She earned her PhD with distinction (Cum Laude and Extraordinary Doctorate Award), focusing on personalized medicine in adrenal tumors through metabolomics. Her clinical and research interests encompass adrenal and pituitary diseases, with particular emphasis on Cushing syndrome, primary aldosteronism, pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma, adrenal insufficiency, adrenal tumors, and acromegaly.

Affiliations and expertise
1Neuroendocrinology & Adrenal Unit of the Endocrinology & Nutrition Department. Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal. Madrid. Spain 2Ramón y Cajal Research Institute (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain

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