Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Cushing’s disease (CD) is caused by pituitary corticotrophin (ACTH)-secreting tumours. Our aim is to show our experience in a third level hospital attending a 500 000 based population area from 1990 to now.Methods: We review retrospectively the medical reports of all patients diagnosed as CD from 1990 by a data collection protocol. We reject the reports without enough or inadequate information. We present results by using descriptive stat...

Introduction: Myxedema coma is a rare life-threatening clinical condition in patients with longstanding severe untreated hypothyroidism, in whom adaptive mechanisms fail to maintain homeostasis. Most patients, however, are not comatose, and, although strict criteria have been proposed, it is often difficult to differentiate it from very severe hypothyroidism, lacking only a precipitating event.Material and methods: We present the clinical picture of 70 c...