Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To develop a specific questionnaire to evaluate the satisfaction of diabetic patients with the use of glucometers and evaluate their psychometric properties (feasibility, reliability, and validity).Material and methods: Two stages: i) questionnaire development: a set of 53 items was constructed after a bibliographic review. A panel of six experts and 50 patients concluded a 25-item version of the questionnaire (dimensions: satisfaction, inconv...

Introduction and objectives: Multiple surgeries are associated with many complications in the local recurrence of papillary thyroid carcinoma. Our objective is to evaluate the efficiency of the enolization in the recurrent metastatic cervical lymph nodes in patients with limited nodal disease.Material and methods: We studied 13 patients (six males and seven females) with a mean age of 43±14.4 years with papillary thyroid carcinoma intervened (total ...

Introduction: Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of the thyroid gland is an accurate diagnostic test used routinely in the initial evaluation of nodular thyroid disease. A sizeable subset of patients are found to be taking antithrombotic and/or anticoagulant (AT/AC) medications. This creates a dilemma for the endocrinologist, who must weigh the risk of withholding these medications (and the associated potential benefit of diagnosis) against the perceived increased risk of ia...

Objective: To evaluate the response to treatment with insulin infusion pumps by the evolution of HbA1c over 8 years of experience.Methods: Observational retrospective study. We evaluated the response to treatment in 122 patients with type 1 diabetes recruited between 2004 and 2012 in our area.Results: Between 2004 and 2012, 122 pumps have been implemented (average of 17.4 pumps/year). The number decreased to only four in 2012. Pres...

Objective: To analyze the impact of a specialized management on cardiovascular risk at the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus.Material and method: Were analyzed 171 patients who visited our diabetes day hospital (DDH) during 2010–2011, studying the following variables: sex, age, BMI, smoking habit, arterial hypertension (de novo/previously known), antihypertensive therapy, dislypidemia (de novo/previously known), hypolipidemic thera...

Objective: To analyze the demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients treated at the onset of type two diabetes mellitus in our DDH.Material and method: During 2010–2011 were analyzed 171 patients treated in our DDH, studying the following variables: sex, age, BMI, waist circumference, family diabetes history, microvascular and macrovascular long-term complications, smoking habit, rate of associated hypertension (de novo/ previ...