Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Chronic somatotropin (ST) hypersecretion has systemic effects. It can cause important structural and functional cardiovascular (CV) changes, which can result in increased morbidity and mortality.Case report: A 48-year-old, male. followed by cardiology since 2005 for dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) (Ecocardiography: moderately dilated left ventricle with globular appearance. Severely impaired global systolic function - LVEF 25%. Right cavities ...

Introduction: Although inpatients hyperglycemia is a current uneasiness among the medical community, its prevalence in Portugal in unknown. We aim to identify ‘Stress hyperglycemia’ and ‘New onset diabetes’ cases in inpatients in a district hospital.Methods: We evaluated inpatients from Internal Medicine (IM), General Surgery (GS), Orthopedics and Traumatology (OT) and Stoke Unit (SU) departments, admitted from the emergency departmen...

Background: Distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DSPN) is one of the most prevalent chronic complications of diabetes and the most common cause in the pathway to diabetic foot ulceration. Screening for DSPN enables early intervention and prevention of complications. The Semmes-Weinstein Monofilament Examination (SWME) is currently the method of choice to screen DSPN, but ideally two neurologic tests should be used. The Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI), which evaluat...