Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Vitamin D is a hormone that acts through the Vitamin D receptor (VDR) not only on the skeletal system but on a great number of target tissues, including thyroid gland. In recent years the association of vitamin D with autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD), has been suggested.VDR gene polymorphisms had been associated with an increased risk of AITD. In addition a recent meta-analysis showed that AITD patients had lower level of 25-hydroxyvitami...

Introduction: Subclinical Cushing’s syndrome (SCS) is the most frequent endocrine dysfunction found in adrenal incidentalomas. Although adrenalectomy constitutes a therapeutic option for selected cases, the presence of bilateral tumours can difficult the surgical decision.Objective: Evaluate the utility of 131I-6β-iodomethyl-19-norcholesterol scintigraphy in SCS with bilateral adrenal tumours.Methods: Retrospec...