Soluble Alpha Klotho in Acromegaly: Comparison With Traditional Markers of Disease Activity.
Júnia R O L SchweizerKatharina SchilbachMichael HaeneltAlexandre V GiannettiMariana F BizziBeatriz S SoaresEduardo PaulinoJochen SchopohlSylvère StörmannAntônio Ribeiro-OliveiraMartin BidlingmaierPublished in: The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2021)
Our data support sαKL as a biomarker to assess disease activity in acromegaly. sαKL exhibits close association with GH secretory status, large dynamic range, and robustness toward biological confounders. Its measurement could be helpful particularly when GH and IGF-I provide discrepant information.