Endocrine Abstracts

Pituitary enlargement with long standing hypothyroidism is well established.The clinical evolution of pituitary hyperplasia to thyroid hormone should be monitored closely during primary hypothyroidism because of the rare possibility of an incidental non thyrotropic pituitary tumor that will not regress on thyroid hormone. We report a case of a pituitary mass not responding to thyroid hormone therapy.A 46 years old women was admitte...

Most macroprolactinomas are responsive to dopamine against drugs. Bromocriptine (BRC) has been available and extensively used in our country. The aims are to assess the outcome in 29 patients with macroprolactinomas who were treated with BRC.Material and methods: A multicentric study of 29 patients with macroprolactinoma (19 female; 10 males). The mean age was 33 years. The pituitary mass was larger than 10 mm in diameter. There was no endocrinological e...

Aims: Waist circumference is a convenient measure of abdominal adipose tissue,it correlates closely with BMI and is strongly linked to obesity- related risk factors. The sex specific waist circumference currently proposed for European male is 94 centimetres and for females is 80 cm. Thus, there is a need to develop sex specific waist circumference cut-offs points appropriate for different population (W.H.O).The aims are to determine the appropriate waist...