Endocrine Abstracts

Context: Cushing’s syndrome (CS) is a rare endocrine disease, due to cortisol hypersecretion. CS patients have several comorbidities, often still present after biochemical cure. There are no specific nursing healthcare programs to address this disease and achieve improved health related quality of life (HRQoL). Thus, an educational nursing intervention in these patients, through the development and promotion of specific educational tools, appears to be justified.<p cl...

Background: The most common type of thyroid cancer is the well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) and that includes papillary (PTC) and follicular carcinoma (FTC). The PTC would represent 50–90% and the FTC over 15–30%. Within the PTC, the most frequent is the classical variant (over 80%), followed by follicular variant (10%) and the rest of variants (<10%). Furthermore, there are differences between PTC and FTC in age at diagnosis, local extension, multicent...

Objective: Prospective observational study in a group of pregnant patients affected by type 1 diabetes (T1DM), that are monitored by the Endocrinology and Pregnancy Unit.Material and Methods: Weevaluated 12 pregnant patients with T1DM in which a FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring Systemwas installed, in addition to their capillary glucose self-control (SMBG), over the past year 2019. Time above range (TAR), time in range (TIR) and time below range ...