Endocrine Abstracts

Background: carbohydrate counting is often performed inaccurately by patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D). We hypothesized that mobile App ‘Dietrometro’, that estimates CHO content of food figures, would ameliorate glucose control.Aim: To study the effect of ‘Dietometro’ on glucose control.Methods: 54 T1D subjects (aged 18-60 years, 26 males), on multiple daily injections (n=23) or continuous subcutaneou...

Premise: multinodular goiter and compressive symptoms in the neck could not be necessarily associated.Case-report: A 82-year-old woman diagnosed follicular lymphoma in 2017 reached to the Emergency Department in Agoust 2021 because of a progressive and worsening dysphagia and dysphonia, begun six weeks before. The patient complained a weight loss of about 8 kg due to the inability in feeding. Her medical history was relevant for thyroid goiter, known sin...

Background: The normocalcaemic hyperparathyroidism (NHPT) has been defined as a condition with persistently normal total and ionized calcium levels in the presence of high levels of PTH. The clinical aspects of NHPT have been evaluated in different cohorts but the interpretation of these findings is confounded by differing methods used to rule out secondary hyperparathyroidism and by the small number of NHPT subjects enrolled. Up to now, there is no information available that ...