Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To investigate adherence to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in patients with hypopituitarism in a tertiary center outpatient clinic.Patients and methods: Prospective, cross-sectional study of patients with hypopituitarism on HRT for at least two pituitary deficiencies (independent of diabetes insipidus). Medication adherence was assessed using a validated Portuguese version of four-item Morisky scale, in which participants were asked to indi...

Adrenal nodular disease is a frequently increasing in the general population with an incidence that reaches almost 10% in the seventh decade of life. More and more evidences show these lesions discovered through diagnostic imaging (CT, MRI) performed for other medical problems (incidentalomas). New radioimaging techniques, exploiting the quantitative variables of imaging, permit to identify an hypothetical pathological tissue. We have applied this potential in a retrospective ...