Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Zoledronic acid (ZOL) administration may cause acute phase adverse reactions (APR), which manifest with fever, malaise, bone and muscular pain, headache and/or gastrointestinal disturbances. Previous data suggest that high N-terminal propeptide of type 1 collagen (P1NP) and low 25, OH-vitaminD (VitD) levels are associated with higher incidence of APR, while the previous use of bisphosphonates is a protective factor. Lately, ZOL has been frequently used to mitigate ...

Introduction: in X-linked hypophosfatemic rickets (XLH) mutations of PHEX lead to elevated FGF-23 levels. Phosphate salts and calcitriol represented the only treatment option. Tertiary hyperparathyroidism (THPT) is a complication of XLH worsening the clinical features and constituting a contraindication to conventional treatment. Burosumab, a monoclonal antibody anti-FGF23, was recently approved in XLH. No data about Burosumab treatment in patients with XLH and THPT are availa...

Background: Routine clinical use of arginine-vasopressin (AVP) is limited by its small molecular size and pre-analytical errors. In contrast, copeptin – a peptide of 39 amino acids co-secreted with arginine-vasopressin (AVP) - is a stable protein and its measurement represents a reliable measure of AVP concentration. The aim of this study was to analyze diagnostic role of copeptin in diagnosis of diabetes insipidus (DI) in patients treated for hypothalamic-pituitary disea...

Background: Radiofrequency Echographic Multi Spectrometry (REMS) is a new ultrasound-based tool for bone mineral density (BMD) measurement, recently approved by FDA for the use in clinical routine to diagnose osteoporosis (OP) and to monitor bone changes. However, data on patients with secondary OP are not available. The aim of our study was to compare REMS and DXA ability in identifying clinical (cFX) and morphometric vertebral fractures (VFx) in patients with primary OP (pOP...

ObjectiveSeveral studies showed that patients discontinuing denosumab (Dmab) may experience bone loss and incident vertebral fractures (VFx) due to a rebound bone turnover increase, suggesting the need of anti-resorptive (i.e. bisphosphonate BPs) therapy to mitigate this occurrence. However, the morphometric VFx (morphoVFx) incidence after Dmab discontinuation is unknown and scarce data are available about the BPs effect on BMD changes and Fx risk in thi...

Background: Subclinical hypothyroidism (SH) is a frequent clinical condition with a prevalence of 3–15% in general population. It is defined by elevated TSH levels with normal thyroid hormones [free thyroxine (FT4) and free triiodothyronine (FT3)]. Similar to prolactin, high TSH levels may be caused by macroTSH, a large molecular sized TSH with a low bioactivity. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of macroTSH in patients with subclinical hypothyroidism....

Objective: The current cut-offs to diagnose adrenal insufficiency (AI) have been established using outdated immunoassays. More modern methods have demonstrated less cross-reactivity with other steroids. The aim of our study was to evaluate the correlation between the cortisol assay Roche Cortisol I (R1), the newly available Roche Cortisol II (R2) and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), the gold standard procedure for the measurement of steroids.<p cl...

Background: fragility fractures (FX) occur frequently after lung transplantation (TX), with a higher rate (15-20%) in the first two years, which decreases subsequently. Patients affected from cystic fibrosis (CF) seem to have a lower FX risk in the first two years after TX as compared with those affected with other lung diseases (nCF). The aim of our study is to evaluate and compare the long-term skeletal outcome in CF and nCF patients after TX.Methods: ...

Objective: The identification of hyperandrogenism represents the cornerstone for the assessment of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOs). However, its definition has always been troubling, mostly because of the poor accuracy shown by routine androgens assays. As suggested by literature, the application of more precise steroid measurement methods (such as liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry, LC-MS/MS) could improve the diagnostic workup. The aim of our study is to evaluat...