Endocrine Abstracts

A 63-year-old woman came to our observation. She has been affected by a nodular goiter for 20 years. She was treated with 6 months short L-thyroxine therapy cycle (75 μg/day); the therapy was interrupted on her own initiative 3 months before we saw her. Symptoms: constriction, tachycardia. US: diffusely enlarged and hypoechogenic thyroid, a 5 cm well defined solid nodule on the right lobe. FNAB: poor colloid, numerous follicular cells, some of them showing ...

About 7% of pregnancies are complicated by diabetes, out of which 97.5% gestational diabetes (GMD), 2.5% pre-gestational diabetes. We investigated 29 women at their first pregnancy who had GMD medium risk factor in the absence of pre-existing thyroid pathologies. We divided them in two groups: the first 19 women (age 33.9 years) resulted affected by GMD (OGTT effected, according to Carpenter and C criteria), between pregnancy weeks 24–28; the second ten women (age 34.3 ye...