Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Depressive symptoms (DS) and diabetes-related distress (DD) are common comorbidities in diabetic patients adversely affecting diabetes self-management and patients’ well-being.Aim: To examine associations between DS and DD with glycaemic control, quality of life and diabetes self-management.Materials and methods: Depressive symptoms, DD, quality of life, diabetes self-management and metabolic indicators were asses...

In order to compare effects of treatment in hyperthyroid patients treated with thyrostatic drug alone and those treated with thyrostatic plus levothyroxine we reviewed data from 60 consecutive patients attending our outpatient clinic. 27 patients, 25 ♀ and 2 ♂, aged 27–68 years were treated with thyrostatic drug alone, while 33 patients, 31 ♀ and 2 ♂, aged 19–88 years received thyrostatic plus levothyroxine. Number of remissions was greate...

We retrospectively collected data from 62 pregnant females who were followed for hyperthyroidism (n=17), hypothyroidism (n=21), euthyroid Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (n=9), and simple goitre and other non-autoimmune thyroid diseases (n=15).Among them 33 showed at least once during pregnancy low FT4, or low FT3 and FT4 in total on 74 occasions. Low FT4 was found on 15, low FT3 on 15 and low FT<s...

Last 10 years, we are living in iodine sufficient environment. To clarify natural course of thyroid autonomy in this conditions, we investigated 100 consecutive patients in last three months – 93 female and 7 male aged 19–86 years. Included were patients with scans showing thyroid autonomy, and patients with nodular or diffuse goiter with low or suppressed TSH. We followed them from their first visit. Thirty patients were hyperthyroid – one spontaneously cured, ...

Objective: To analyse the semen quality in patients with newly diagnosed lymphoma’s before starting the treatment.Materials and methods: We evaluated semen quality in 131 patient with lymphoma who underwent sperm banking in our clinic over a 14-year period. 102 patients had Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and 29 had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Semen samples were collected by masturbation after 2–7 days of sexual abstinence. Age at banking, semen volu...