Endocrine Abstracts

The ability of thyroid cell to accumulate iodine is due to presence of sodium iodide symporter (NIS). Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) maintain ability to express NIS and thus it makes possible to perform RAI treatment. In case of DTC cells loss the ability of NIS protein production and cell membrane embedding that leads to RAI treatment fail.The aim of our study was to find a relationship between the level of preoperatively defined NIS and recurrence...

Hypothesis: The clinical presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) changed lately but we don’t know if more patients in our population have asymptomatic form of PHPT.Materials and methods: Medical records of 449 patients with PHPT who were operated in three Medical Centers (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) between Jan 2011– Jun 2018 were screened. We analyzed anthropometric data, laboratory tests (PTH, 25(OH)D, Ca, iCa, P, 24-h calciuria, ALP...