Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The NETTER 1 trial resulted in markedly longer progression-free survival (PFS), with preliminary evidence of an overall survival benefit. We report the results of PFS and safety of (177Lu)-DOTATATE in patients treated in our hospital between 2014 and 2016.Methods: Transversal and descriptive study of seven patients with advanced, progressive, somatostatin receptor-positive tumors who had received previous treatments. All of them were treate...

Introduction: Craniopharyngiomas are benign epitelial tumors located in the suprasellar region and they are associated to several comorbidities. Our aim is to describe hormonal deficiency and complications after surgery.Design: Descriptive study of patients that underwent surgery of craniopharyngioma. Data collected included hormonal levels, clinical data and mortality. Quantitative variables with normal distribution are shown as mean and standard deviat...

Background: Obesity has been associated with low levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D). This could be explained by a low dietary intake, reduced sun exposure or less biodisponibility because of its arrest in the fat mass. The main objective is to study the prevalence of 25(OH)D deficiency in premenopausal obese women.Methods: Aleatory sample of 100 morbidly obese patients. Selection criteria were: women, premenopausal, Caucasian. Patient with diabetes ...

Objective: Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs) are relatively infrequent. We present a descriptive study of GEP-NETs of a reference Spanish hospital.Patients and methods: Forty-six patients were diagnosed of GEP-NETs during the period 1993–2011. Data regarding demographic, clinical, analytical, anatomopathological and diagnostic variables were collected. Results are expressed as mean±SD....