A 45-year-old lady presents with complaints of a progressive increase in the size of hands and feet and shoe size for past 5 years. The family members have noticed a change in her facial appearance in the form of coarsening of features and her voice has become sonorous. She also has complaints of frequent headaches for past 1 year. She complains of amenorrhea for past 5 years. She also has complaints of joint pains for past 3 years which have become more severe for the past 3 months. She is hypertensive for past 1 year and complaints of grade 2 dyspnea on exertion and her hypertension is controlled on 10 mg of cilnidipine and 40 mg of telmisartan. She is not a known diabetic and has checked her random sugars 1 week back which was normal. She is not on any other medications presently (Fig. 1.1).
What is the proposed line of investigation for this patient?
A growth hormone suppression should be done with 75 g of glucose and IGF-1 levels should also be done. The patient is subjected to a GH suppression test and her post-glucose GH levels are found to be 30 ng/mL and her IGF-1 levels are 800 ng/mL.
Because the most common cause of growth hormone over secretion is a pituitary adenoma. She is subjected to a pituitary MRI which shows a pituitary macroadenoma of 15 mm in size.
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