Endocrine Abstracts

Materials and methods: The aims were to evaluate the frequency of nodular thyroid disease (NTD) in acromegalic patients and to correlate clinical and metabolic features with disease activity and other. We conducted a cross-sectional study including retrospectively 69 acromegalic patients attending to an University Hospital in Madrid, Spain between 1980 and 2016. Mean age was 63 (32–92) years, 63.8% of patients were female. Mean age at diagnosis of acromegaly was 48 (11&#1...

Introduction: Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common cause of secondary hypertension. Guidelines recommend a confirmatory test in the majority of suspected cases: oral sodium loading, saline infusion test (SIT), captopril challenge test (CCT), or fludrocortisone suppression test. The SIT and CCT are most commonly used in clinical practice to study autonomous aldosterone secretion.Objectives and Methods: We compared the CCT’s diagnosis perform...