Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenal nodular disease is a frequently increasing in the general population with an incidence that reaches almost 10% in the seventh decade of life. More and more evidences show these lesions discovered through diagnostic imaging (CT, MRI) performed for other medical problems (incidentalomas). New radioimaging techniques, exploiting the quantitative variables of imaging, permit to identify an hypothetical pathological tissue. We have applied this potential in a retrospective ...

Low T3 syndrome is a frequent finding in patients with critical illness, particularly in those admitted to intensive care units. It is generally considered an adaptive state of thyroid hormone (TH) economy, but many evidences indicate that it may represent a negative prognostic factor too. The prevalence and clinical relevance of the Low T3 syndrome in coronavirus infections has not been evaluated yet. We have measured thyroid hormone levels and analyzed anamnestic, epidemiolo...