Endocrine Abstracts

Lipid profile suffers adaptive changes during pregnancy due to estrogen stimulation and insulin resistance. Several relations have been suggested between maternal lipid profile, glucose tolerance, endothelial cell dysfunction and long-term cardiovascular risk; the effects of maternal lipid profile metabolism in fetal growth are also inconclusive. Since a regular evaluation and follow-up of lipid profile during pregnancy has not been stablished yet, we aimed to evaluate the inc...

Introduction: Due to the widespread use of imaging studies performed in hospitalised patients for other indications, adrenal incidentalomas (AI) are frequent findings in the everyday clinical practice. The objective of this research is to describe the prevalence of hormonally active and malignant AI.Patients and methods: Observational retrospective study of a cohort of patients who consulted in the Endocrinology service between 2005 and 2015 because of a...

Introduction: The Bethesda System classifies suspicious thyroid nodules or those with a large size after fine-needle aspiration (FNA) depending on the risk of malignancy through its cytology study. Bethesda category 3 (B3) implies atypia of uncertain significance or follicular lesion of undetermined significance. Objectives: To determine the final diagnosis of category B3 nodules and the number of cases in which a second or third FNA results in a conclusive category (B2, B4, B...