Long-term bromocriptine therapy and predictive tests in acromegaly.
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15 صفحه اولPrediction of response to bromocriptine in acromegaly.
BROMOCRIPTINE was first used in the treatment of acromegaly in 1974 (Liuzzi et al, 1974 a). Not all patients show lowered human growth hormone in response to the drug (Liuzzi et al, 1974 a; Thorner and Besser, 1975; Sachdev et al, 1975). We have performed a series of tests on acromegalic patients in an attempt to discover if any test could predict those patients likely to show !ong-term respons...
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عنوان ژورنال: Endocrinologia Japonica
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0013-7219,2185-6370
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj1954.33.163