Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To analyze the impact of a specialized management on cardiovascular risk at the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus.Material and method: Were analyzed 171 patients who visited our diabetes day hospital (DDH) during 2010–2011, studying the following variables: sex, age, BMI, smoking habit, arterial hypertension (de novo/previously known), antihypertensive therapy, dislypidemia (de novo/previously known), hypolipidemic thera...

Objective: To analyze the demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients treated at the onset of type two diabetes mellitus in our DDH.Material and method: During 2010–2011 were analyzed 171 patients treated in our DDH, studying the following variables: sex, age, BMI, waist circumference, family diabetes history, microvascular and macrovascular long-term complications, smoking habit, rate of associated hypertension (de novo/ previ...

Objective: Analyze the use of DPP-4 inhibitors (iDPP4) in a specialized consultation as well as metabolic impact, weight and safety in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2).Material and methods: We analyzed 100 patients with DM2, derivative to Diabetes hospital with debut or poor glycemic control. We initiated them sitagliptin 100 mg/day and reinforced Diabetes education. We studied the HbA1c, weight and severe hypoglycemia. Statistical analysis w...

Introduction and objectives: Having frequent hypoglycaemias can enable the appareance of severe and unnoticed hypoglycaemias, as well as favouring vascular damage in these patients. Our objective is to evaluate de incidende of severe hypoglycaemias (SH) in patients with Diabetes Mellitus type 1 and the reduction of perceived hypoglycaemias.Material and methods: A prospective study was conducted. Patients attending to their Endocrinology appointments betw...

Introduction: Family hypobetalipoproteinemia (HBF) is a rare genetic disorder, in 50% of cases are due to mutations APOB gene, which leads to decreased values of total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein (LDL-cholesterol) and apo-B. It is inherited as an autosomal dominant and heterozygous carriers are usually asymptomatic.Clinical case: Thirty-two-year-old male with abdominal pain and diarrhea associated with food, no relevant history and physical exam...

Introduction: ‘Atypia of undetermined significance (AUS) or follicular lesion of undetermined significance’ category is established by The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology because of the necessity to report those thyroid fine-needle aspiration (FNA) results that are not easily classified into the benign, suspicious or malignant categories. In most cases, a repeated FNA results in a more definitive interpretation. Estimated risk of malignancy for an...

Introduction: Primary hyperparathyroidism is caused by a single adenoma in 85% of cases. This is why bilateral neck exploration seems to be a very aggressive procedure in a large number of cases. Intraoperative parathyroid hormone (IOPTH) monitoring could be a useful tool in primary hyperparathyroidism surgery allowing a less invasive surgical approach. The aim of our study is to evaluate the possible impact of the measurement of IOPTH during surgery.Met...

Introduction: There are new therapies indicated in medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) based on different molecular targets, that appear to be effective in some cases with advanced disease, although many are still under investigation.Material and methods: We retrospectively evaluated five cases of medullar thyroid advanced carcinoma that later were referred to Oncology Department for Chemotherapy treatment.Results: Five patients (mean a...