Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Follicular neoplasm (FN) or suspicious for a follicular neoplasm category is established by The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology because of the necessity to identify a nodule that might be a follicular carcinoma and triage it for surgical lobectomy. Estimated risk of malignancy for this category is 15–30%.Description of methods: We conducted a retrospective study that included all patients with a follicular neoplasm ...

Objective: Prospective observational study in a group of pregnant patients affected by type 1 diabetes (T1DM), that are monitored by the Endocrinology and Pregnancy Unit.Material and Methods: Weevaluated 12 pregnant patients with T1DM in which a FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring Systemwas installed, in addition to their capillary glucose self-control (SMBG), over the past year 2019. Time above range (TAR), time in range (TIR) and time below range ...

Objectives: The prevalence of diabetic patients admitted in hospitals close to 20% in some series. Our goal is to determine the prevalence of diabetic patients assessed by interclinical calls from different medical and surgical specialties that have been entered during 2015 in our Hospital, in order to describe the characteristics that these diabetic patients.Material and methods: We present 116 patients evaluated by interclinical consultation request fo...

A 47-year-old male with a history of severe persistent asthma and recurrent respiratory infections with admissions to the Pulmonology Department. The patient underwent a study due to weight loss, diarrhoea and Ca 19.9 elevation. Imaging tests (abdominal CT and MRI cholangio) were performed, which highlighted severe pancreatic fat infiltration. The cystic fibrosis study was completed with genetics (positive: two heterozygous switches F508del and D1152H), sweat test (45 mmol/l -...

Introduction: Amyloidosis is a rare systemic disease of unknown etiology characterized by the extracellular deposition of proteinaceous (amyloid) material in different organs of the body. About 40-50% are of secondary cause (Amyloidosis AA) Amyloid goiter is a rare condition, usually associated with the secondary form.Case: We reported a 41-year-old male with a history of non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, high blood pressure and smoking habit. Maintains...

Background: Percutaneous radiological gastrostomy (PRG) is one of the techniques of choice for long-term enteral nutrition. Although safe and technically simple, it has been associated with relative morbidity and mortality.Objective: We analyzed the results of the PRG insertion techniques with respect to morbidity and mortality, associated complications during the hospital stay, as well as nutritional results.Methods: A cohort of 3...

Introduction: The clinical presentation of ectopic Cushing’s syndrome secondary to pheochromocytoma differs from the classic manifestations of these endocrinopathies separately. This cosecretion causes greater morbidity, requiring a complex preoperative preparation. We describe two clinical cases, a 46-year-old male with grade II overweight and a 65-year-old female with grade I obesity, both with a personal history of hypertension poorly controlled with 7 and 3 antihypert...

Introduction: Hypercalcemia of malignancy usually appears in patients with osteolytic metastasis and in those patients with humoral hypercalcemia due to secretion of PTHrp by the tumor. Hypercalcemia due to calcitriol production by the tumor is uncommon (<1% of cases of hypercalcemia of malignancy). It is the cause of virtually all cases of hypercalcemia in patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and approximately one third of cases in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It has als...

Introduction: The differential diagnosis of cystic cervical masses includes thyroid cyst, thymic cyst, thyroglossal duct cyst, branchial cleft cyst, bronchogenic cyst, lymphangioma and parathyroid cyst (PC). PC is one of the less common causes of the cervical masses.Methods: We report the case of a 37-year-old man admitted to the hospital with a neck mass of 48 mm.Results: Our patient presented with neck pain and an hipoechogenic n...

Introduction: Many causes of malabsorbtion of levothyroxine (LT4) in patients with hypothyroidism have been thoroughly described in literature. Pseudomalabsorption, poor compliance of the patient is most common cause of failure of LT4 and/or liothyronine (LT3) treatment.Case report: 27 years old woman, normopondeal, presented from the age of 11 years for short stature. Further investigations found pluritrope pituitary insufficiency ...