Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: There is a significant link between the increased activity of estrogen and its metabolites in endometrial carcinogenesis. Polymorphisms of the gene involved in metabolism of estrogen can modulate risk for the development of endometrial cancer. CYP1B1 plays an important role in estrogen metabolism. In our study, the frequency of three CYP1B1 gene polymorphisms (4326 C> G, 4390 A> G and 355 G> T) were studied in obese and non-obese women with endometrio...

Introduction: Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare and aggressive neuroendocrine skin cancer. It is characterized by a high rate of local recurrence after surgical resection as well as the occurrence of distant metastases. It mostly occurs in the elderly and the exact etiology is unknown. The most significant risk factors for its occurrence are exposure to ultraviolet light and the oncogenic effect of the Merkel cell polyoma virus.Aim: Demographic and clinica...

Introduction: The association between CRP and prediabetes has not been sufficiently investigated. The aim of the study was to determine the association of prediabetes with subclinical inflammation, as well as to examine the correlation of sensitive CRP (hsCRP) with fasting glycemia and 2 h glycemia during exercise during the OGTT test.Methods: The study included 106 patients with angiographically diagnosed coronary artery disease, who, based on the oral ...

Aim: Functional neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) represent a specific diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Hormonal clinical syndrome can severely complicate clinical picture and affect treatment. Functional pancreatic NETs have been extensively studied. Our aim was to analyze functional lung NETs in terms of clinical characteristics and survival.Materials and methods: We retrospectively analyzed data from 230 patients with lung NETs treated at our departme...

Paragangliomas (PGLs) and pheochromocytomas (PCCs) are rare neuroendocrine tumors that arise from chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla and the sympathetic/parasympathetic neural ganglia, respectively. We retrospectively analyzed 82 patients (43 female and 38 males) predominantly with PGLs who were hospitalized between January 2002 and December 2022. Twenty one patients were lost to follow up. The median age at diagnosis was 47 years (11–75) and the mean tumor size was ...

Background: Low adiponectin levels in polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) have been largely attributed to obesity which is common among these patients. In addition, evidence also suggests that low adiponectin in PCOS may be related to androgen excess in these women. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine the association of adiponectin levels and androgens in women with PCOS.Methods: A total of 60 women with PCOS who met the 2003 Rotterdam ...

Background: Although polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) constitutes a common endocrinopathy, there are several issues which confuse clinicians during everyday practice.Objective: To define the current status of knowledge of the full spectrum of PCOS among European endocrinologists.Methods: A detailed questionnaire comprising 41 items covering various aspects of diagnosis and management of women with PCOS was shared via web among memb...

Introduction: The majority of adrenocortical incidentalomas (AIs) are nonfunctional adenomas. Some of them demonstrate an autonomous cortisol secretion (ACS), a pathologic condition defined as biochemical evidence of hypercortisolism without typical signs or symptoms of Cushing’s syndrome.Subjects and methods: In this cross-sectional study, we evaluated 152 consecutive patients, aged 58.3 years (range, 25-84 years) of whom 105 (69.1%) with unilatera...

Introduction: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrine disorders in reproductive-age women. This highly complex reproductive metabolic disorder is independently associated with high prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). While the gold standard of NAFLD diagnosis is liver biopsy or MRI, it is costly and hard to perform in large population. Recently, simple and convenient markers, such as liver fat score (LFS), fatty liver inde...