Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Both GH and IGF1 have important effects on the heart mass and contractility and deficiency of either hormone is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. GH/IGF1 axis abnormalities (mostly primary or secondary IGF1-D) are frequent in adult patients with β-thalassemia major (β-Thal). IGF1-D could therefore contribute with iron overload to the heart’s damage of β-Thal patients, but this question has been little investigat...

Introduction: The association between autoimmune thyroid diseases and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is still controversial and it is based only on retrospective analyses.Objective: Aim of the present research was to evaluate this association in a prospective study of unselected consecutive thyroid nodules (TN) submitted to fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), anti-thyroid autoantibodies (ATA) measurement and histological analyses of surgical sampl...