Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Pituitary apoplexy has been reported in around 2% of surgically treated adenomas. Around 45% of all pituitary tumours presenting with apoplexy are non-functioning ones (NFAs). Currently, no data exist on recurrence rates in patients with NFAs who have had classical apoplexy.Aim: We therefore, put together our data aiming to provide the first reliable series on recurrence rates in patients with NFA and classical pituitary apoplexy.<p class...

Background: Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a few frequent disease with abnormal synthesis of type 1 collagen. That affects skeletal but also extra-skeletal tissues. Aortic root (AR) dilatation and valvular dysfunction have been described. Other studies, to estimate the size of the AR, index it by the body surface area (BSA), however, although these patients are shorter their internal organs have a relatively normal growth, so we could find overestimated AR values. Therefore, ...

Purpose: To evaluate the prevalence of autonomous cortisol secretion (ACS) in patients with primary aldosteronism (PA) and its implications on cardiometabolic and surgical outcomes.Methods: A retrospective multicenter study of PA patients who underwent 1mg-dexamethasone suppression test (DST) in follow-up in 21 Spanish tertiary hospitals. ACS was defined as a cortisol post-DST >1.8μg/dL (confirmed ACS if >5μg/dL and possible ACS if between 1.8-...