Endocrine Abstracts

To evaluate the prevalence of comorbilities related to acromegaly and the grade of response to the different therapeutic alternatives.Material-methods: A retrospective study of 25 acromegalic patients diagnosed between 1990–2010 was made. It included a descriptive analysis on sex, age, hypertension, impaired glucose metabolism when diagnosed acromegaly, screening for dygestive and cardiac pathology, tumoral size, and percentage of disease control an...

Background and objectives: The finding of a thyroid nodule is a very common occurrence in clinical practice. Management of thyroid nodules requires a multidisciplinary approach that may be eased by a high-resolution thyroid nodule clinic. We report our clinical experience and outcomes in a high-resolution thyroid nodule clinic.Patients and methods: All patients referred to Virgen de la Victoria Hospital (Málaga) from 2005 to 2007 were evaluated foll...