Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: We aimed to validate the diagnosis and estimated national incidence of acromegaly reported in the Swedish National Patient Register (NPR), based on clinically reported International Classification of Diseases (ICD-codes), in comparison with the Swedish Pituitary Register (SPR).Methods: All patients in NPR or SPR between 1991-2018 with the ICD-9 or ICD-10 diagnosis of acromegaly and age >18 years at diagnosis were included. The diagnosis was ...

Background: Neuropsychiatric symptoms and cognitive dysfunction are common in Cushing´s disease (CD), and seem only partly reversible after biochemical remission has been achieved.Aim: To investigate prescription of drugs associated with neuropsychiatric morbidity in a large national cohort of CD patients.Methods: Patients in the Swedish Pituitary Registry, diagnosed with CD between July 2006 and January 2018 were included, <e...

Introduction: Cushing’s syndrome is rare, but assessment of patients with clinical suspicion of Cushing’s and/or adrenal incidentaloma is frequently required. Thus, there is a need for biochemical screening methods that with high sensitivity and specificity identifies or rule out hypercortisolism. Analysis of late night salivary cortisol allows an easy sampling procedure performed at home and is independent of variations in plasma CBG levels. Analysis by liquid chrom...

Adrenal hormones possess both circadian and ultradian rhythms, making interpretation of single time point measurements difficult, particularly in the context of suspected endocrine disease. Attempting to capture either normal or pathological rhythms in detail by traditional measurement of blood is impractical and generally unfeasible. However, minimally invasive microdialysis sampling of free tissue hormones coupled with a portable fraction collector (U-RHYTHM), and a targeted...

Background & Objective: Late night salivary cortisol (LNSC) and 1 mg overnight dexamethasone suppression test (DST) are two of the three recommended screening tests for Cushing’s syndrome (CS). The classical DST uses serum cortisol, but analysis of salivary cortisol and cortisone has shown high diagnostic accuracy at DST (1). Salivary cortisol can be analysed with immunoassays, which suffer from variable degree of cross reactivity with other steroids, or with LC-MS/MS...

Background: It is still undetermined whether patients with Cushing’s disease (CD) in remission have an increased mortality. Most previous studies are limited by small numbers of patients and/or short follow-up time.Objective: To study mortality in a nation-wide cohort of patients with CD during long-term follow-up.Methods: Patients with ICD codes for Cushing’s syndrome and/or CD, between 1987 and 2013, were identified in ...

Background: Acromegaly is associated with increased morbidity and mortality if left untreated. The therapeutic options include surgery, medical treatment, and radiotherapy. Guidelines regarding treatment algorithms and follow-up vary considerably.Aim: To evaluate consensus on the treatment and follow-up of acromegaly in the Scandinavian countries.Methods: To map the landscape of acromegaly management in the Scandinavian countries, ...