Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The Biomedical Engineering Group of the University of Seville, the Endocrinology and Nutrition Unit of the Virgen Macarena Hospital (ENU-VMH) and the company Igluco Tech are developing the GLUCUBE device, a new non-invasive sensor for blood glucose measurement.Objective: First validation of usability and accessibility of the device by patients in a controlled clinical environment.Material and Methods: General user-cen...

Background: Malnutrition affects 30-50% of patients with hematological malignancies; it is due to the disease itself, the treatment-related catabolic process and chemo-or radio-therapy side effects (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and mucositis). Patients with poor nutritional status have increased morbidity (treatment complications, infections, mucositis) and mortality.AimTo evaluate the nutritional status of all patients that underwent hematopoietic stem ce...

Introduction: American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines suggest considering hemithyroidectomy in patients with unifocal well-differentiated thyroid tumours,smaller than 4 cm, withoutpreoperative evidence of extrathyroidal extension (ETE) nor lymph node metastases. Although multifocal microcarcinomas are considered to increase the risk of structural disease recurrence from 1%–2% to 4%–6% compared to unifocal microcarcinomas, the ATA guidelines do not sugges...