Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To understand the factors associated with changes in thyroid nodule volume with previous benign citology.Material and Methods: This is a prospective single-center observational study. We included patients with a benign citology from March/2016 to May/2018 and ultrasound follow-up after 12–24 months. Initially we determined the nodule size (volume in ml), and its risk of malignancy was classified according to ATA 2015 criteria. Volume cha...

Objective: Incidentally discovered thyroid microcarcinomas (TMc) are tumors with a maximal diameter ≥1 cm, indetified during a detailed histopathology examination following a thyroidectomy performed for reasons not pertaining to malignancies of the thyroid gland.Methods: We included 1555 patients who underwent a total thyroidectomy for benign disease between January 2005 and December 2018. Patients with post-surgical pathology consistent with thyro...

Introduction: Hypothyroidism during pregnancy has been asociated with adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. During pregnancy, maternal levothyroxine (LT4) dose requirements increase. The aim of this study is to determine the increase of LT4 doses during pregnancy in pregestational hypothyroid women.Methods: We included 76 hypothyroid pregnant women. We analyzed analytical and clinical characteristics of these patients, as well as the increase of LT4 re...