Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify changes in thyroid hormone metabolism occurring in different thyroid functional states and to evaluate tissue response to thyroid hormone changes.Methods: Two hundred subjects (137 F, 63 M, mean age: 50.3±14.4 years) waiting to be treated or treated with total thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer were enrolled in this study. Thyroid function was investigated measuring TSH, fT4 and fT3, and ...

Background: The evaluation of health-related Quality of Life (QoL) is becoming a key component in clinical assessment of thyreopathic patients, especially those thyroidectomized for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) and treated with levothyroxine (LT4).Aim: To evaluate QoL in different thyroid states in patients treated with total thyroidectomy for DTC and correlate it with thyroid function tests.Methods: Two hundred subjects (13...

Background: The use of prophylactic central neck dissection, especially for low-risk differentiated thyroid cancer, is still very variable from center to center. Obviously, central dissection does allow more complete staging of cancer, including identification of metastases not detectable on preoperative ultrasound. However, it could lead to higher risk of hypoparathyroidism. Above all, it is not entirely clear whether the identification of metastases of the central compartmen...