Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Type 1 Gastric neuroendocrine tumors account for 70 to 80 percent of all gastric neuroendocrine tumors (G-NETs) and they are found more commonly in older adults, particularly women. They are associated with autoimmune metaplastic atrophic gastritis (AMAG) with or without pernicious anemia. Endoscopically, they are usually smaller than 1 cm and often multiple. These tumors usually present a non-aggressive evolution. Our goal is to approach the presence of risk fac...

Background and Objective: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is associated with life-long adverse outcomes for the mother and the baby. To date there is no rigorous clinical test for the assessment of GDM risk, since estimation of GDM risk is currently primarily based on clinical risk factors. Additional markers are needed to identify women at high risk. Our aim was to develop and validate a risk assessment model to identify women at high risk of GDM through an algorithm that...

Case history: A 30 years old male Caucasian had his saliva tested on a self-funded commercial DNA testing to identify his ancestral roots. The markers for Y chromosome were found to be absent and further evaluation revealed him to have 46 XX karyotype.This was consistent with the diagnosis of De la Chapelle syndrome or XX male syndrome. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) studies confirmed the presence of SRY (sex determining region Y) gene which was responsible...

Objective: To develop a specific questionnaire to evaluate the satisfaction of diabetic patients with the use of glucometers and evaluate their psychometric properties (feasibility, reliability, and validity).Material and methods: Two stages: i) questionnaire development: a set of 53 items was constructed after a bibliographic review. A panel of six experts and 50 patients concluded a 25-item version of the questionnaire (dimensions: satisfaction, inconv...

Introduction: The contrast agents iopanoic acid and ipodate are potent inhibitors of thyroid function, reducing type I deodinase T3 generation, inhibiting thyroid liberation of T4 and T3, and T3 receptor binding, with off-label use in hyperthyroid emergencies. However, since the interruption of iopanoic acid production this year, neither agent is currently available in Spain.Case report: A 34-year-old male was ...

Nutritional status has an important effect on the progression of any disease, not only in hospitalized patients, even more in ambulatory patient of primary care. Although there are many systems of evaluating nutritional status, they are costly and subject to variability amongst individuals. The Medicine Laboratory can correctly perform a nutritional evaluation in a quick an efficient manner.Objective: Analyze the nutritional status by CONUT nutritional e...

Introduction: Altered nutritional status is a problem in itself that can complicate a patient’s disease. In our hospital, the assessment of nutritional status at hospital admission is protocolized and performed by the Clinical Laboratory automatically, through the CONUT system, for three years ago. Our hospital provides assistance to a population of 120,000 patients, from rural areas and with a high average age. Hospital admissions for cognitive impairment are increasing ...

Object: Nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas can experiment recurrence and/or progression (R/P) several years after surgery in about 15–50% of patients. There is few evidence about risk factors that could predict R/P. The aim of this study is to identify them and describe our experience through a long term of follow-up in pituitary macroadenomas.Methods: Retrospective cohort analysis of 64 patients who underwent surgery between 1990 and 2013. The main ...

Introduction: The prolactinoma is the most common functioning pituitary tumour. There are few long-term studies on the optimal duration of treatment with dopamine agonists prolactinoma to ensure healing without recurrence after stopping the medication and do not provide a consensus on it or on withdrawal criteria treatment.Objectives: To establish the prevalence of withdrawal of treatment macroprolactinomas and evaluate criteria prolactinoma cure medical...

Objectives: To determine the association between adverse pregnancy outcomes with each of the 75 g OGTT cut-off values prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO), Philippine Obstetrical and Gynecological Society (POGS), and the International Association of Diabetes in Pregnancy Study group (IASDPG) criteria to help define more appropriate glycemic cut-off levels for Filipinas.Methodology: Retrospective Cohort study of pregnancy deliveries in De La ...