Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction and aims: Diabetic neuropathy may trigger the development of anemia in patients even before the onset of advanced renal failure. Autonomic neuropathy with subsequent renal denervation, combined with damaged erythropoetin producing fibroblasts in renal cortex, may have contributed to the early development of anemia in the patients with diabetes. Proliferative retonopathy, autonomic neuropathy, microalbuminuria, and moderate renal failure, suggesting that, factors o...

Thyroid cancer in patients with hyperthyroidism is considered to be a rare event and its course seems to be more aggressive in patients with Graves’ disease. The coexistence of medullary thyroid cancer and hyperthyroidism is very rare and there are only 14 cases reported in the literature.The aim of this retrospective study is to assess the clinical and histological characteristics and the evolution of thyroid cancer in patients with different types...