Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Long-term studies evaluating mortality in patients with non-functioning (NF) pituitary tumors (PitNets) are limited, although standardized mortality ratios (SMR) in these patients are reported to be higher than that of general population. There is also no agreement on predictive factors associated to the increased mortality apart from age at diagnosis and glucocorticoid substitution therapy dose.Objective: To assess long-term mortality and as...