Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Anti-thyroid peroxidase (TPO) antibodies are the serological hallmark of autoimmune thyroid disease and are often used for the establishment of the diagnosis of Graves’ disease (GD).Aim: To investigate the diagnostic value of the anti-TPO antibodies in a series of patients with GD.Patients and methods: All patients presenting to our Department with GD between 1/2004-6/2007 were studied. The diagnosis was based on t...

Introduction: Islet hyperplasia and nesidioblastosis are described in the non neoplastic pancreas of patients with gastrinoma. It is not definately established whether hypergastrinemia can influence these changes. Moreover, rarely insulinoma and gastrinoma occur in the same patient but cases of single tumours cosecreting both insulin and gastrin have been described. Otherwise, the syndrome of hyperinsulinemic hypoglycaemia with nesidioblastosis after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass h...