Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a dominantly inherited disease characterized by colorectal adenomas, extracolonic gastrointestinal manifestations and extraintestinal diseases. Among them, differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is considered very frequent with an approximately risk 160 times higher than in general population, and with a prevalence of the cribriform-morular variant. As this esteem comes from scattered data, we evaluated in a prospective contro...

Introduction: It has been previously described that prolactinomas may have a more aggressive behaviour in men than in women.Methods: We performed a retrospective study in 59 patients diagnosed of prolactinoma (19 men). The variables collected were: age at diagnosis, clinical presentation, tumor size and stage (Hardy classification) and treatment response. The results were compared between both genders.Results: Age at diagnosis was ...

Introduction: The demand of health care for people with gender incongruence (IG) has grown exponentially especially in young population. Due to this, there is a growing number of studies that show psychological conflicts and social functioning in those individuals who have not received gender-affirming treatment with medical intervention (pubertal block, hormone or surgical treatment) and social intervention. However, the data published so far do not represent the European cou...

Primary aldosteronism is now recognized as the most frequent cause of secondary hypertension, accounting for 5–10% of the total cases of hypertension. Reportedly it is associated with a risk of cardiovascular events above and beyond hypertension development. Notwithstanding its high prevalence and serious complications, it is widely infradiagnosed. Hereby we present the case of a normotensive 50-year old female patient who was diagnosed of probable left hypernephroma, but...

Introduction: The most frequent causes of hypercalcemia in the general population are primary hyperparathyroidism and malignancies. However, we must sometimes consider other causes, such as Cushing’s syndrome.Clinical case: A 49-year-old man who was being assessed for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was referred to our Endocrinology Clinic in order to investigate the incidental finding of hypercalcemia (11.08 mg/dl) with high PTH (84.6 pg/ml), hypophosp...

Objectives: Main: To assess the effect on the 10-year risk of cardiovascular events (RCVE) of daily supplementation with a fixed combination of red yeast rice extract (250 mg), berberin 525 mg and coenzyme Q10 (50 mg) in patients with self-reported statin intolerance. Secondary: effects on anthropometric (BMI, SBP, DBP, HR) and laboratory (lipids, fasting glucose and HbA1C in diabetic patients, eGFR, AST, ALT, GGT, CK); self-reported compliance and tolera...

Introduction: Ghrelin is an orexigenic hormone with two isoforms: Acyl Ghrelin (AG) and Desacyl Ghrelin (DAG). AG binds to its specific receptor GHS-R1 and stimulates growth hormone secretion. DAG also binds to GHS-R1 receptor, but with 1000 times less affinity than AG. Effect of DAG on cell proliferation and inhibition of apoptosis has been reported. However, there are no studies of DAG function in human placenta. For first time, this work analyzed the effect of DAG on viabil...

Antidiabetic biguanides, such as metformin (the most commonly prescribed drug to treat type 2 diabetes) and phenformin, are synthetic insulin-sensitizing agents. In addition to their well-known anti-hyperglycemic actions, biguanides are being also studied in other medical disorders due to the beneficial effects that they exert in important pathologies, including cardiovascular disease or different types of cancer. Although some scattered studies have suggested that metformin c...

Background: Apart from traditional cardiovascular-risk factors and fluctuating sex hormone levels, environmental and lifestyle factors might also contribute to the heightened cardiovascular risk after menopause.Objective: To explore whether nutritional factors are associated with subclinical vessel disease in postmenopausal women.Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited 310 apparently healthy postmenopausal women, attending a ...

Background: 0.55T MRI is a new MRI technology offering increased patient accessibility with a wider bore (80cm) and reduced acoustic noise. We compared the sensitivity of liver metastases detection on gadoxetate-enhanced 0.55T MRI to 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT while evaluating patient experience.Methods: Nine patients with neuroendocrine liver metastases were imaged using gadoxetate-enhanced 0.55T MRI (MAGNETOM Free.Max, Siemens Healthineers, Erlang...