Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Improvement of health related quality of life (QoL) is one of the main goals defined by the WHO and besides reduction of mortality and morbidity an important objective for health outcomes. In chronic endocrine diseases, QoL often remains impaired despite cure or remission of the disease. In quantitative analyses, factors such as age, gender, BMI and depression, are associated with reduced QoL. However, aspects of social interaction and more complex individual con...

Neuroimaging techniques have improved over the last years; hence an “empty sella” is more often incidentally diagnosed. The term “empty sella” describes a missing pituitary gland in the sella turcica. Up to now, it is not known if routine endocrine assessment is necessary in patients with primary empty sella syndrome (PES) without clinical suspicion or history of neuroendocrine disorders.We performed a systematic literature research u...

Introduction and Objective: Adult craniopharyngioma as a rare neoplasm of the central nervous system is still very poorly understood. The clinical implications for affected patients are numerous, ranging from endocrine dysfunction to visual loss and neurological impairment. Although the progress of this tumor entity is slow by nature, affected patients often suffer from multiple symptoms even after successful treatment with a strong impact on their individual quality of life. ...