PPT-Consensus Statement on acromegaly

therapeutic outcomes Fatemeh Rahmani Agenda 1Introduction 2TherapeuticEndPoints BiochemicalGoals Tumor Shrinkage . What are the advantages and disadvantages . CONSENSUS – decisions are not made unless everyone agrees.. Issues are debated and discussed until everyone agrees on a course of action. Consensus decision-making is relatively rare for government. In most democracies, decisions are made according to a majority vote. Because the representatives belong to different political parties, regions, and so forth, consensus in a democracy is difficult to achieve.. Jacob Beal. Social Concepts in Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Systems. IEEE SASO. September, 2013. Asymmetry trades robustness for speed. Spanning Tree. Consensus. Laplacian. Consensus. O(diameter). Jacob Beal. 2013 Spatial Computing Workshop @ AAMAS. May, 2013. PLD-Consensus:. With asymmetry from a self-organizing overlay…. … we can cheaply trade precision for speed.. Motivation: approximate consensus. to increasing support for climate action. John Cook. Global Change Institute, University of Queensland. 19 Sep 2013. “Science . is not a democracy. . It . is a dictatorship. . It . is evidence that does the dictating. Practical Endocrinology. Wendy Blount, DVM. The Pituitary Gland. Two parts. Adenohypophysis – anterior lobe. Pars distalis. Pars intermedia. Pars infundibularis. Neurohypophysis - posterior lobe. Growth Hormone (GH) = Somatotropin. Sayed. Abdel Fattah . Eid. Lecturer of Internal Medicine. Delta University. Acromegaly . . Introduction. - Acromegaly is an insidious disorder caused by a pituitary GH-secreting adenoma resulting in high circulating levels of GH and IGF-I. . A Tool for Teams. GALA Leadership Symposium. October 11, 2013. Presenter: Mindy Taylor. Session Overview. Become familiar with a group process tool called Consensus Validation. Learn the steps in doing Consensus Validation. When you can’t agree to disagree. Consensus. Why do applications need consensus?. What does it mean to have consensus?. Consensus = consistency. Assumptions. Processes can choose values. Run at arbitrary speeds. Acromegaly. Very rare. Prevalence in the order of 1 in 200,000. Usually diagnosed between age 40 and 60. No difference in gender susceptibility. Insidious onset. Pathogenesis. Most commonly caused by pituitary adenoma. Acromegaly. Rahim. . Zahedi. MD. Introduction. Acromegaly. is a rare disease typically caused by an excess of growth hormone (GH) secretion from a pituitary adenoma. The active disease is characterized by elevations of both GH and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF1) and the failure of GH suppression in oral glucose tolerance test(OGTT). Mahtab. . Niroomand. . M. .D.. Assistant Professor of Endocrinology. 2014. Tehran. Out line. Introduction and epidemiology. Etiology and differential diagnosis. Clinical features. Survival . Diagnostic modality. • Today . the pituitary gland is recognized for its . essential role . in body homeostasis, and for this reason it often is referred . to as . the “. master gland. .”. • The pituitary . is a very small gland, weighing between 0.4 and 1 g . 395 respiratory or cardiac failure. Among them, cardiovascular involvement is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. There are relatively few cases reporting cardiac pISSN 2384-1095eISSN 2384-11 on Exercise / Physical Activity for Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes. Purpose of the Update. This statement is an update of the 2010 position stand on exercise & type 2 diabetes (T2D) published jointly by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA)..