Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: To investigate the association between country incidence of type one diabetes (T1DM) and mortality from infectious disease as well as to antibiotic susceptibilityMaterials and methods: An ecological study correlating data from the WHO DiaMond Project for the incidence of T1DM, the WHO estimates of mortality (2004) from communicable diseases and the Alexander Project for bacterial susceptibility to antimicrobial agents.Results:...

Background: Adrenal tumours are often benign and non-functioning. However, there can be underlying phaeochromocytoma, Conns, adrenal Cushing or even malignancy in some cases. It is therefore imperative that these incidentalomas are promptly investigated once detected and managed accordingly.Aim: 1. To determine the incidence of adrenal incidentaloma at Gozo General Hospital. 2. To determine the adherence of management of incidentalomas to guidelines reco...

Aim: There are few reports discussing incidence and characteristics of the whole group of Cushing’s syndrome patients in the literature. The aim was to establish the incidence of endogenous Cushing’s syndrome with in-depth analysis of their various subtypes in a well-defined population.Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional analysis of Cushing’s syndrome patients diagnosed between 2008 and 2017. A thorough search for patients was carrie...

Background: We studied a cohort of hyperparathyroid patients in order to elucidate their clinical, laboratory, radiological and histological findings; the role of diagnostic imaging and concomitant thyroid pathologies.Method: 48 patients met our inclusion criteria for hypercalcaemic primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT). We documented patients’ demographic data, symptomatology, associated conditions and treatment and analysed the work-up, management an...

Introduction: Thyroid nodules are very common and elucidating the nature of these thyroid nodules is an important task.Methodology: Patients who had an ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) of a thyroid nodule between January 2008 and June 2012 were retrospectively audited and their ultrasonographic and biochemical characteristics where analysed. For those patients who were operated nodule characteristics were correlated with thyroid histology.<...