Endocrine Abstracts

Thyroid incidentalomas was defined as newly identified thyroid lesions encountered during imaging study for non-thyroid diseases. In the last years, the use of FDG-PET/CT for staging of metastatic diseases was increased. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the FDG-PET/CT uptake, to identify a SUVmax cut off predictive of malignancy and to determine the FDG-PET/CT prognostic role in patients with thyroid incidentalomas. 42 patients (ptx) with incidental thyroid ...

Introduction: Liraglutide, a GLP-1 analogue, is a new option for the treatment of type 2 diabetes (DM2). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of liraglutide in daily clinical practice in a heterogeneous population with DM2.Subjects and methods: Four visits were scheduled in a 1 year study (baseline, 4, 8 and 12 months). All patients with a HbA1c not on target (>7%) during an oral hypoglycemic treatment, or patients intole...

Objective: Hypopituitarism in adults may be a consequence of TBI, but in the acute or long term management of TBI patients (ptx), endocrine evaluations are not usually included. Aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of hypopituitarism and metabolic syndrome in a population of 54 severe (n=31) and moderate (n=23) TBI ptx (38 M, 16 F; age (mean±S.D.): 39.8±2.1 years) who had TBI more than 12 months before.<p class="abstext...