Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To determine the degree of control of hypercholesterolemia in a specific lipid unit.Material and Methods: Retrospective study of patients followed in our unit over the past 16 years diagnosed with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HFH) or familial combined hyperlipidemia (FCH). Control criteria according to the following recommendations were compared: International Panel (2003), Nice (2008), NLA (2011), ESC / ESA 2011, Consensus ADA ...

Introduction: Ectopic thyroid glands are generally a rare entity appearing mostly in the cervical midline (90% of the cases) and even more rarely in other anatomical sites (10%).Clinical report: We present the case of an ectopic submandibular thyroid gland. A 31-year-old woman was referred to our department with a history of left submandibular swelling.A scintigraphy was performed, which showed an accumulation of activity in the ri...

Objective: Analyse the features of first patients treated with PCSK9 inhibitors in a specific Familial dyslipidemia Unit and the effects on lipid profile in first months of treatment.Material and methods: Data from patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia treated with PCSK9 inhibitors were reviewed. Clinical data, physical examination and analytical data were collected at baseline, one month and 3 months.Results: Da...

Introduction: A high percentage of patients diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) have malnutrition. The nutritional treatment in ALS is essential, affecting muscle strength, quality of life and survival.Objective: To describe the nutritional characteristics of patients evaluated in a specific nutritional Unit in patients with ALS during 3 years.Material and methods: A descriptive study of all patients diagnosed with A...

Introduction: Acute pancreatitis induced by hypertriglyceridemia is a severe condition and its management is complicated.Case report: We present a case of severe acute pancreatitis induced by hypertriglyceridemia secondary to lipoprotein lipase -LPL- deficiency (188 Gly-Glu mutation, LPL undetectable activity) in a pregnant patient with gestational diabetes.The patient was sent to our Lipid Unit in the 13th gestation’ week. Th...

Rationale: Patients with morbid obesity may have vitamin D deficiency and bariatric surgery may exacerbate it due to factors such as lack of dietary compliance, reduced intake, malabsorption, etc.Objective: To study vitamin D deficiency prevalence in patients with morbid obesity before and after bariatric surgery and its relationship with other laboratory parameters.Methods: A retrospective study of 88 morbidly obese patients befor...

Objective: To determine the characteristics of patients with familiar hypercholesterolemia studied in a specific unit of lipids.Material and methods: A descriptive study of patients followed in our unit over the last 16 years diagnosed with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HFH) or familial combined hyperlipidemia (FCH).Results: Data from 111 patients were analyzed: 66 with HFH and 45 with FCH.Featu...

Aim: To analyze the influence of bariatric surgery over serum lipids in patients with morbid obesity after 1 year of surgery.Methods: Retrospective study of 88 patients before and after 1 year of bariatric surgery (65 by pass and 23 sleeve). We collected data about age, sex, other diseases, anthropometric measures and biochemical parameters: glucose, uric acid, total cholesterol (TC), HDL-C, LDL-C, triglycerides (TG), VLDL and non-HDL-C, homocistein and ...

Introduction: Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA) is a form of diabetes which is underdiagnosed and appears to have characteristics of both type 1 (autoimmune in nature) and type 2 diabetes (adult age at onset and initial response to oral hypoglycemic agents).Objective: To study features of patients with LADA diagnosed and treated in our clinic.Material and methods: Retrospective study of patients attended in our clinic in ...

Rationale: Patients with morbid obesity may have vitamin D deficiency and bariatric surgery may exacerbate it due to various factors such as lack of dietary compliance, reduced intake, malabsorption, etc.Objective: To study the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in patients with morbid obesity before and after bariatric surgery and its relationship with other laboratory parameters.Methods: A retrospective study of 72 morbidly obese...