Endocrine Abstracts

COVID-19 is a serious problem of modern medicine. The disease has many manifestations, as it affects almost all organs and systems. One of the target organs of the endocrine system is the thyroid gland. The aim of the study was to identify the patterns of development and course of subacute thyroiditis in patients who underwent COVID-19. The study included 9 clinical cases. In all cases, these were women aged 32 to 54 years. All patients were sick with COVID-19 (4 of them were ...

Thyroid calcifications are a difficult problem to interpret. The deposition of calcium salt crystals often indicates profound morphological changes, cell death, their rearrangement and dedifferentiation. The calcifications are not guaranteed markers of any process. There is also no data on the effect calcifications on the development of a process in the thyroid. The analysis of 67 thyroid nodules, in wich calcifications were detected during ultrasound. Macrocalcifications were...

In 2016–2020, 181 patients (mean age – 54.8; range 31–77 years) with tumors of parathyroid glands (PG) were operated. All patients had hyperparathyroidism. The diagnosis was confirmed by high levels of ionized calcium and parathyroid hormone (PTH) in the blood. Ultrasound was performed in all patients before surgery. The evaluation of ultrasound images of PG tumors was carried out according to the following parameters: echogenicity, echostructure, shape, clarity...

High-intensity focused ultrasound ablation (HIFU) was used in the treatment of thyroid nodules using the device “Echopulse” (Theraclion, France). The therapeutic sensor is represented by a piezoelectric lens with a diameter of 12 cm, with a variable radiation frequency from 0.8 to 1.6 MHz. The treatment was carried out automatically after preliminary planning. The impact zone (ablation focus) was marked automatically on the device screen. The limitations for using HI...

Methods of radiation diagnostics and fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) are the methods of the first stage of diagnosis of thyroid nodules, which is confirmed by a large number of international recommendations. However, these methods do not always give the right answer for thyroid adenomas. The aim of the study was to study the effectiveness of a set of methods: ultrasound, sonoelastography, scintigraphy and FNAB in the diagnosis of thyroid adenomas. The study included 86 pa...

The retrospective experience of diagnosis and treatment of 18 people with true parathyroid cysts was studied. Clinical features, ultrasound results, laboratory parameters, surgical aids and subsequent dynamics were studied. All patients were women aged 35 to 77 years. Parathyroid cysts had no clinical manifestations, hyperparathyroidism and compression syndrome were absent. All parathyroid cysts were discovered accidentally during an ultrasound examination of the neck. Often t...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the diagnostic capabilities of systems for assessing ultrasound thyroid imagines. The object of the study was 754 patients with thyroid nodules. Research methods: ultrasound in the framework of image evaluation systems TIRADS, EU-TIRADS, ARC-TI-RADS, BTA, TI-RADS K. For statistical analysis of systems and criteria was performed multidimensional statistical modeling using cluster, factor, discriminant, variance, and ROC analysis. The stu...

Purpose: To study the possibilities of sonoelastography (SEG) in the diagnosis of thyroid tumors. Materials and methods: in 123 patients (27 with papillary thyroid cancer, 45 with thyroid adenomas, and 51 with colloid goiter), different versions of SEG were used at the preoperative stage: compression sonoelastography (CEG) and point shear wave elastography (ARFI). Together with the staining assessment, quantitative parameters were determined: the speed of the transverse wave (...

Scientists have studied the direct effect of Civi19 on the pancreas and thyroid gland, in particular, on the development of subacute thyroiditis de Quervian. Our study describes 9 cases of subacute thyroiditis associated with coronavirus infection. Three patients had a mild form of covid19 (positive PCR test result). Subacute thyroiditis was one of the components of multiple organ lesions. Patients had typical manifestations of thyroiditis neck pain, cough, signs of hyperthyro...