Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Patients with Cushing’s syndrome (CS) have a lot of complications due to chronic exposure of cortisol.Aim: To reveal specific changes of cardiovascular system in patients with CS.Material and methods: i) Six patients with CS (five females, one male, 47.1±1.5 years old), duration of CS 3.4±1.2 years, ii) 19 healthy patients (48.1±3.0 years old), and iii) ten patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) ...

For the purpose to compare sleep breathing disorders (SBD) in untreated and treated patients with acromegaly, we examined 55 patients with acromegaly (18 men and 37 women): 27 patients with newly diagnosed acromegaly, age 56.0 (47.0; 64.0) y.o., BMI 30.2 (27.8; 34.4) kg/m2, GH levels 12.8 (4.6; 23.0) ng/ml, IGF-1 245 (106; 331) % of upper normal limit (UNL), hypertension duration 6.5 (1.0; 14.8) years; 28 patients with treated acromegaly, age 57.0 (47.3; 64.8) y.o., BMI 30.7 ...