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Indian Journal of Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volume  9, Issue 1, January-Febuary 2022, Pages 45-49
 

Case Report

Acromegalic Cardiomyopathy: A Pandora of Hidden Comorbidities

Sakshi Kadian1, Sonia Dorathy N2, Sharmistha Pathak3, Swathi M4, Sanjay Agrawal

1,3,4 Senior Resident, 2 Junior Resident, 5 Professor and Head of Department, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand 249203, India

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijaa.2349.8471.9122.7

Abstract

Acromegaly, a neuroendocrine disorder due to excess growth hormone and insulin like growth factor-1, has large spectrum of underlying comorbidities. Hereby we report acromegalic cardiomyopathy in 65 year old male patient who also had acromegalic changes involving various other systems and anesthetic management of the same when he was scheduled for definitive transnasal trans-sphenoidal resection of pituitary adenoma.


Keywords : Acromegaly; Cardiomyopathy; Pituitary adenoma; Trans-sphenoidal resection.
Corresponding Author : Sanjay Agrawal