Endocrine Abstracts

Hyper- and hypothyroidism are accompanied by significant changes in basic metabolic rate, balance of catabolic and anabolic processes, thermogenesis and ultimately in body weight. The aim of this pilot study was to estimate changes in body composition during certain stages of treatment in patients with severe hypo- and hyperthyroidism; current relation between observed hormonal status and body composition and ultimately the relation between changes in body composition and chan...

Introduction: Acromegaly is a disease caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone and subsequently insulin growth factor 1. It is believed that this oversecretion can cause increased prevalence of nodular goiter and thyroid cancer. However, the amount of studies comparing acromegalic patients with control groups is low. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of thyroid lesions in patients with acromegaly in comparison with age and sex-matched control group.<...

Introduction: Shear wave elastography (SWE) is a reliable, objective and reproducible technique in sonographic assessment of tissue stiffness. It is considered to be an improvement of conventional ultrasonographic examination. It was demonstrated to be useful in the diagnosis of many thyroid disorders, such as thyroid cancer, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or Graves’ disease. The aim of our study was to check if SWE can be supportive in the diagnosis of primary hyperparathy...

Introduction: Acromegaly is a relatively rare endocrine condition caused by GH oversecretion by pituitary adenoma. Its most frequent complications include cardiovascular and respiratory system diseases with high tendency of neoplastic transformation and increased risk of benign and malignant tumors. The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the prevalence of benign and malignant neoplasms in patients with acromegaly.Materials and methods: We have...

Introduction: Elastography is a method of tissue stiffness assessment. It was already demonstrated that thyroid cancers are less elastic than benign lesions. However, little is known about other factors, which might influence the stiffness of thyroid nodules and disrupt the prediction of malignancy using this technique. The aim of this study was to conduct the first systematic assessment of factors potentially affecting elasticity of thyroid lesions.Meth...

Introduction: According to a high prevalence and relatively low occurrence of malignancies in thyroid nodular disease (TND), the selection of suspicious lesions for fine – needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) seem to be a vital problem in the daily endocrinological practice. Beside deciding if the FNAB is necessary, frequently the second problem occurs – which nodule or nodules should be chosen in case of multinodular goiter (MNG), when the number of potential lesions for...

Introduction: Graves ‘Orbitopathy (GO), is an autoimmune disease associated with Graves’ thyrotoxicosis (GT). The therapy is largely dependent on the severity and activity of ocular changes. Additionally, the severity of GO is influenced by exogenous factors, such as thyroid dysfunction, cigarette smoking or radioiodine therapy (RIT). The aim of the study was to indicate how radioiodine therapy (RIT) influences on GO in smoking and non-smoking patients.<p class="...

Introduction: According to a limited number of specialized hospital beds for radioiodine therapy in some countries, fractionated dose of radioiodine may be considered as the ablation therapy of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Aim of the study was to compare the late effects of ablation therapy with single and fractionated dose of radioiodine in patients with DTC.Patients and metods: Patients with DTC treated with one (131)I dose of 2.2 GBq or fracti...

Purpose: In the recent study it has been reported, that elevated serum concentrations of TSH receptor (TSH-R), antithyroglobulin (Tg), antiperoxidase (TPO) autoantbodies (Abs) may be observed in the subjects treated for amiodarone induced thyrotixicosis (AIT) type I, decreased in type II of AIT, or changed in amiodarone induced hypothyroidism (AIH). This study was done to analyse the changes of Tg-Abs, TPO-Abs and TSH-R-Abs titer in euthyroid, hyperthyroid (AIT), and hypothyro...