Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Somatostatin analogues are the mainstay medical treatment of acromegaly. Side effect of this treatment includes gastrointestinal disturbances, cholelithiasis, and local reactions at injection sites. Herein we report an unusual case of local myofascitis after one-year treatment with deep subcutaneous injections of lanreotide Autogel in a patient with acromegalo-gigantism.Clinical case: A 25-year-old man was found to have an invasive macroadeno...

Aim: To study the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) and its relation with ghrelin in old men.Material and methods: Prospective-population based study (2002–2005) in which 153 independently living men older than 70 y were included. Comorbidities, physical exam, BMI, blood pressure were recorded and blood sample taken for biochemical and hormonal determinations. Metabolic syndrome was defined using IDF criteria.Results: MS w...

Retinoic acid (RA) treatment has been used in the last decade for redifferentiation of metastatic thyroid cancer that have lost radioiodine uptake (RIup) with heterogeneous results.Aim: To evaluate the improvement of RIup after a course of RA treatment.Method: Retrospective analysis of 29 patients with radioiodine negative metastatic disease (17 men /12 women; 22 papillary, 4 follicular and 3 oncocytic tumours). RA was given at a d...