Sandostatin LAR Depot vs. Surgery for Treating Acromegaly

NCT00001860 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 5

Last updated 2008-03-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of Sandostatin LAR® (Registered Trademark) Depot to transsphenoidal surgery in previously untreated acromegalic patients with macroadenomas. The primary goal is to normalize insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) levels. Secondary goals are to compare Sandostatin LAR® (Registered Trademark) Depot treatment and transsphenoidal surgery to achieve the following goals: suppress growth hormone levels to less than or equal to 2.5 ng/mL, relieve the clinical signs and symptoms of acromegaly, reduce the size of the macroadenomas, produce few side effects, assess the prognostic value of baseline pituitary adenoma size, extension and baseline growth hormone level on post-treatment growth hormone and IGF-1 levels, and assess the resource utilization of each treatment type.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

Sandostatin LAR Depot versus transsphenoidal surgery

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

    lead NIH

Study Design

Purpose
TREATMENT

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1999-08-31
Completion
2002-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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