Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) significantly impacts Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and sexual function. The aim of this study was to evaluate sex differences in HRQoL and sexual function in patients with T2DM.Methods: We performed an ancillary study of RECOGITO trial (REmodelling in Diabetic CardiOmyopathy: Gender Response to PDE5i InhibiTOrs - NCT01803828). All patients completed the 36-item-Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), assess...

Background: Overt hypercortisolism is highly associated with venous thromboembolism. Patients with Cushing’s syndrome (CS) typically show an alteration of the intrinsic coagulation pathway, especially an increase in factor VIII (f-VIII), and increased levels of coagulation inhibitors (i.e., antithrombin III) as a compensatory response. Mild autonomous cortisol secretion (MACS) has been variably associated with higher risk of cardiovascular events and mortality compared to...

Background: Patients with adrenal insufficiency (AI) require long-term glucocorticoid (GC) replacement therapy and generally show an increased prevalence of bone metabolism alterations. Only few data are available on bone safety of dual-release Hydrocortisone (DR-HC) therapy.Objective: To evaluate bone metabolism in both primary AI (PAI) and secondary AI (SAI) during long-term therapy with DR-HC.Methods: We studied patients with AI...

Background: Patients with Cushing’s syndrome (CS) typically show an alteration in the intrinsic coagulation pathway, leading to an increased risk of venous thromboembolism. Cortisol autonomy has been variably associated with higher risk of cardiovascular events and mortality compared to patients with non-functioning adrenal adenomas (NFA), particularly in women younger than 65 years. However, dedicated studies describing coagulation status in patients with adrenal inciden...

Extracellular ATP modulates several biological processes via activation of plasma membrane receptors (P2Rs) in normal human thyrocytes (NT). We characterized P2Rs expression and function in two thyroid cancer cell lines: FB1 (anaplastic cancer) and FB2 [papillary cancer (PTC)]. P2Rs expression was evaluated by RT-PCR and WB, intracellular Ca2+changes by fluorimetric technique (Fura2-AM), IL-6 release by ELISA, intracellular [i(ATP)] and extracellular ATP [...

Background: The evaluation of postoperative adrenal insufficiency (PAI) and hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis recovery in patients with adrenal incidentaloma (AI) undergoing unilateral adrenalectomy remains limited.Objectives: We aimed to identify predictive factors for PAI development and evaluate HPA axis recovery in AI patients undergoing unilateral adrenalectomy.Methods: We retrospectively analysed adrenal fun...