What are symptoms of a brain tumor? #braintumor #braintumorsymptoms #growthhormone #acromegaly

Añadido: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]It's not typically the case where somebody all of a sudden wakes up one morning and has symptoms. Usually there are the course of many years if not decades. The classic ones are something like acromegley. Acromegley is a a type of clinical condition in which growth hormone is over secreted by the pituitary gland. So growth hormone is a important hormone for all of us when we're young and developing in terms of bone growth and organ development. But if it continues well into adulthood, it used to classically be called gigantism, but it's really just increased in soft tissues, muscle growth, bone growth, and its worst cases can actually cause cardiovascular morbidity. So a typical patient would notice when you talk to them that over the course of the last maybe 5 10 years, they've noticed increased shoe size, hand size, glove size. Many people associate it with weight gain, but it's actually more structural than that. And it's only when they kind of reflect on it that they start to notice, yeah, you know what? My my picture album looks different. My face has changed.