Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Several previous studies showed a reduced quality of life (QoL) in patients with Addison`s disease, but only few data on the potential influencing factors are available so far.Methods: We determined current QoL in 200 patients with Addison`s disease using AddiQoL-36, a questionnaire developed in collaboration with the European consortium Euradrenal. Furthermore, data about symptoms, diagnosis and medication were collected by questionnaires ...

Introduction: We report the unusual case of a young patient with micturition induced headache, in which contrast-enhanced ultrasound helped to assure diagnosis of paravesical paraganglioma.Case: An 18-year-old male presented with attacks of severe headache lasting several minutes and occurring strictly after micturition. Hypertensive values up to 200/105 mmHg were detected subsequent to nearly every micturition while values before and some minutes after ...

Background: Persons with CAH may be at increased risk of developing adrenal myelolipomas, particularly if their CAH is poorly controlled. Adrenal masses can be detected by ultrasound with high sensitivity and specificity. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) may be a useful method in the diagnostic work-up of adrenal mass with excellent sensitivity for the diagnosis of malignancy. However, ultrasound is not included in the diagnostic algorithm of patients with CAH.<p class=...

Objective: Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI)-imaging is a novel ultrasound-based elastography method enabling quantitative measurement of tissue stiffness. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the feasibility of ARFI-measurements in the thyroid tissue.Materials and methods: ARFI-imaging involves the mechanical excitation of tissue using short-duration acoustic pulses to generate localized displacements in tissue. The displacements result in...

Objective: Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI)-Imaging is a novel ultrasound-based elastography method enabling quantitative measurement of tissue stiffness. The aim of the present study was to evaluate ARFI for the differentiation of thyroid nodules and to compare it with the well known qualitative Realtime-Elastography (RTE)Materials and Methods: ARFI-imaging involves the mechanical excitation of tissue using short-duration acoustic pulses to gener...