Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) have an increased risk for developing glucose intolerance in postpartum. The aim of our study was to describe the general characteristics of pregnant women with GDM and to assess the prevalence of glucose intolerance in early postpartum by postpartum oral glucose tolerance test (ppOGTT).Methods: Retrospective study from January 2017 to December 2020 including patients with GDM followed at endoc...

Women with positive thyroid autoimmunity are considered at risk of developing hypothyroidism in pregnancy, so monitoring thyroid function is recommended.Objective: To assess the risk of gestational hypothyroidism in pregnant women with autoimmune thyroid disease and normal thyrotropin (TSH) at the beginning of pregnancy.Methods: Retrospective review of data from pregnant women attended between April 2016 and October 2019. Women wit...

Objective: Incidentally discovered thyroid microcarcinomas (TMc) are tumors with a maximal diameter ≥1 cm, indetified during a detailed histopathology examination following a thyroidectomy performed for reasons not pertaining to malignancies of the thyroid gland.Methods: We included 1555 patients who underwent a total thyroidectomy for benign disease between January 2005 and December 2018. Patients with post-surgical pathology consistent with thyro...

Introduction: Hypothyroidism during pregnancy has been asociated with adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. During pregnancy, maternal levothyroxine (LT4) dose requirements increase. The aim of this study is to determine the increase of LT4 doses during pregnancy in pregestational hypothyroid women.Methods: We included 76 hypothyroid pregnant women. We analyzed analytical and clinical characteristics of these patients, as well as the increase of LT4 re...