Active clinical trials for "Acromegaly"

This is a phase IIIb multicenter, open-label; single arm study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pasireotide LAR 40 mg and 60 mg in patients with inadequately controlled acromegaly with maximal approved doses of first generation somatostatin analogues. The study will enroll inadequately controlled patients by high doses (maximal approved) of first-generation somatostatin analogues given for at least 3 months. Patients will receive pasireotide LAR 40 mg or 60 mg during the 36 week core study phase. Patients who have completed all visits of core phase and have completed all the assessments at the core phase completion visit can move into the 32-week extension phase. Patients can continue with study treatment until pasireotide LAR is commercially available and reimbursed in their respective country or until the end of the extension phase whichever occurs first.

To assess the impact of clomiphene citrate on serum insulin like growth factor 1 and testosterone levels in male acromegalic patients not controlled by surgery, radiotherapy and/or medical treatments (somatostatin analogues, dopamine agonists and/or growth hormone receptor antagonist)

This is a Phase II, open-label multicentre, randomised study to assess the PK, PD, efficacy, and safety of two dosing regimens of CAM2029 in adult patients with acromegaly or a functional, well-differentiated NET, with carcinoid symptoms.

The purpose of this study is to investigate in acromegalic patients the effect of different doses of ITF2984 on GH and IGF-1 concentrations and to investigate safety and tolerability of three different doses of ITF2984.

The study is designed to investigate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of DG3173 in untreated acromegaly patients. Twenty patients received ascending single doses of DG3173 and one dose of octreotide, the current gold standard of medical therapy for acromegaly, with each patient receiving all doses of DG3173 as well as octreotide.

The purpose of this study is to investigate if co-treatment of acromegalic patients, who beforehand are considered well-controlled on SA monotherapy, with pegvisomant and SA will improve insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance, and if these effects of co-treatment can be obtained at a neutral cost as compared to SA mono therapy. Second to investigate body composition, substrate metabolism, symptoms, intrahepatic and intramyocellular fat.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effects of growth hormone (GH) replacement in men and women with a history of acromegaly and who are now growth hormone deficient. We will compare them to persons with a history of acromegaly who have normal GH levels. Acromegaly results when an area in the brain, called the pituitary, produces too much growth hormone. When an individual is cured of acromegaly, the growth hormone levels may be normal or low (that is GH deficiency). Growth hormone deficiency means the body no longer produces as much growth hormone because the pituitary/hypothalamic region was damaged by a tumor or by treatment received. We will study the effects of growth hormone replacement on the health of the heart and blood vessels of GH deficient persons by looking to see if this therapy: has effects on cardiovascular risk markers (special blood tests which indicate how healthy your heart and arteries are) affects the stiffness of the arteries affects your heart rate and the capacity of your heart to respond to changes in body position has different effects depending on whether you are taking estrogen / testosterone. We will assess these measures of health on one occasion in persons with cured acromegaly and normal GH levels and in persons with cured acromegaly who have GH deficiency and a contraindication to receiving GH. GH deficient individuals with no contraindication to receiving GH, will participate in the study for 12 months. Individuals with normal GH levels, or who are GH deficient and have a contraindication to receiving GH, will be asked to return for one more visit (without any interventions).

The patients received either Pasireotide LAR or Octreotide LAR for one year of treatment. The objective of this study was to compare the proportion of patients with a reduction of mean GH level to <2.5 µg/L and the normalization of IGF-1 to within normal limits (age and sex related) between the two treatment groups (pasireotide LAR and octreotide LAR) at 12 months. Following one year of treatment patients could proceed into the study extension. Patients who did not respond to the treatment they were randomized to (based on month 12 assessment results) were switched to the other treatment arm at month 13.

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether 6 months preoperative treatment with the somatostatin analogue octreotide improves the surgical outcome in patients with acromegaly.

This study evaluated the safety and efficacy of an increased frequency of octreotide acetate injections or an increase in dose in partially responsive acromegalic patients with persistently uncontrolled disease.