Endocrine Abstracts

Differentiated thyroid carcinomas (DTC) (papillary, follicular and follicular type of papillary) are characterized by a favourable prognosis, but a part of patients can develop recurrences and eventually die of the disease. We retrospectively reviewed 108 DTC patients affected by locally advanced thyroid carcinoma (77 females, 31 males) (49±15 years), in order to evaluate validate known prognostic factors that enable them to be recognised as having a low or a high risk of...

GH hypersection results in biventricular concentric hypertrophy and a progressive contractile impairment whereas cardiac hypotrophy and impaired diastolic filling and left ventricular function have been reported in GH deficiency (GHD). No information on cardiac performances and structure are available about those acromegalic patients in whom successful treatment made their GH and IGF-I secretion similar to those in GHD patients. In order to study the functional and structural ...