Endocrine Abstracts

Background: the treatment of individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D) has significantly evolved in recent years. Therefore, with the aim of achieving glycaemic targets to prevent or slow down the progression of the disease and its complications, hybrid closed-loop systems (AID) have been developed. These systems integrate three components: a continuous real-time glucose monitor, a control algorithm and an insulin pump. The objective of this study is to analyse the glycaemic and ...

Introduction: The global patterns of aberrant DNA methylation in thyroid cancer are not known. In this study, we have used DNA methylation arrays to determine, for the first time, the genome-wide promoter methylation status of different subtypes of thyroid tumors.Material and methods: We analyzed a cohort of 54 snap frozen thyroid samples (thirteen papillary tumors, six follicular, eleven anaplastic, twenty medullar and four normal tissue samples). Also ...

Background: Up to 15% of pheochromocytomas are malignant. The only definite criterion for malignancy is the presence of metastases. The histological differentiation between benign and malignant tumours is difficult, being a challenging problem nowadays.Aim: To asses if postoperative histological evaluation using the previously proposed pheochromocytoma of the adrenal gland scales scored (PASS) can predict malignancy.Methods: Twenty...