Endocrine Abstracts

Sepsis is defined as “life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection”. This response is expressed, inter alia, in the endocrine system and affects almost all endocrine axes. Endocrine dysfunction, in turn, may contribute to other aspects of dysregulated host response to infection, such as metabolism. Endocrine disorders in the course of sepsis are particularly noticeable in the area of the hypothalamic-pituitary-target tissue a...

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Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) started to quickly spread worldwide in the end of 2019 and was declared by the WHO a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Prevailing signs and symptoms of COVID-19 comprise many organ systems and are very complex and variable and also even unpredictable and lead to tremendous increase in morbidity and mortality. Recently, there has been increasing evidence that COVID-19 affects in a complex way also the endocrine system. Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone s...