Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: After Cushing Syndrome (CS) is cured, up to 70% of patients develop chronic adrenal insufficiency (AI) and hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction. A long-term treatment with glucocorticoids (GC) is mandatory to overcome AI. However, this treatment implies non-desired complications. Fibroblast growth factor (FGF21), a key regulator of metabolism, has a bidirectional relationship with GC that bypasses the negative feedback of the HPA axis. In this study...

Most thyroid nodules are benign and majority do not require treatment, except for those large nodules that cause symptoms (compression, hormonal dysfunction and/or esthetic problems). Microwave ablation (MWA) is an attractive therapeutic option because it is minimally invasive, relatively inexpensive, capable of providing coagulative necrosis, and has a short treatment time. In the following, we present the experience of our hospital.Objective: To evalua...