Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Persistent Hypoparathyroidism (PH) is a condition characterized by inappropriately low concentrations of PTH that lead to hypocalcemia. The treatment cornerstones of PH are calcium and calcitriol supplementation; however, several patients do not achieve adequate control of the disease under this conventional therapy. Notably, no biomarker of risk of ‘resistance’ has yet been identified. Based on the fact that obesity alters the vitamin D-calcium homeostas...

Thyroid hormones play a central role in the regulation of bone turnover and thyrotoxicosis is an established cause of secondary osteoporosis. Increased prevalence of reduced bone mineral density (BMD) has been reported even in patients with subclinical thyrotoxicosis such as those with differentiated thyroid carcinoma undergoing long-term L-thyroxine (L-T4) TSH-suppressive therapy. Morphometric vertebral fractures (VFs) are an early and clinically...

Although differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) has the third highest propensity to spread to the bone after breast and prostate cancer, there is a paucity of data concerning the treatment of bone metastasis (BM) in this setting. The MOSCATI (Metastasi OSsee da Carcinoma TIroideo) was a multicenter, retrospective study investigating the real-life outcome and management of BM in 143 patients (80 F, 63 M; median age 60 years) with DTC involving 10 specialized cente...