Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hyperglycemia (irrespective of the presence of diabetes) has been associated with worse outcomes in hospitalized patients with a variety of diseases, namely critical illness. It is been recently proposed that a relative hyperglycemia – Stress Hyperglycemia Ratio (SHR) – might be even better associated with disease outcomes. We studied how SHR correlated with various morbidity parameters in hospitalized patients due to acute pyelonephritis.<p class="...

Introduction: Blood glucose control during pregnancy is essential in patients with gestational diabetes (GD) to prevent fetal complications. Despite advances in its control, neonatal morbidity and mortality still appears in a significant percentage of cases. The presence of GD also implies consequences for the mother, as the GD appearance in a new pregnancy and/or the future development of glucose metabolism alterations.Methods: We conducted a retrospect...

Introduction: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a neuroendocrine tumour that arises from c cells of the thyroid gland and accounts for less than 8% of thyroid neoplasms. Some are familiar (MEN 2 syndrome) but most are sporadic. Genetic tests have improved the outcome in hereditary forms, but survival in sporadic MTC has not increased in last years. In most patients with sporadic MTC the disease has already metastasized at the time of diagnosis.Objecti...

Background: Patients with diabetes insipidus (DI) that suffer of adipsia usually are difficult to treat, and requiring close monitorization.Aim: To know long-term outcome of patients with DI associated to adipsia.Subjects: From January 1989 to December 2006 were attended five patients (two males) with DI plus adipsia, aged 32±14.64 years, range 10–51. Being the aetiology X histiocytosis, craneapharyngioma, suprasellar men...