Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The widespread use of highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has drastically improved the life expectancy of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. However, many of these drugs show multiple interactions with other treatments; protease inhibitors (PI) are especially troublesome as they interact with the hepatic cytochrome P450. There have been previous reports of both Cushing’s syndrome and adrenal insufficiency in patients treated...

Introduction: Patients with primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI) require lifelong corticoids replacement and they are at risk of therapy-related osteoporosis and cardiovascular complications.Objectives: Determine the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, osteoporosis, and other toxicities related with corticoids treatment.Material and methods: Retrospective, descriptive study in patients with PAI follow up in our service during...

Introduction: Patients referred for adrenal incidentalomas (AI) are increasing. Current guidelines are controversial on diagnosis and length of follow-up.Objectives: Analyze clinical, radiologic and hormonal characteristics of patients with AI. Evaluate the number and usefulness of tests needed for diagnosis, clinical outcome and follow up.Material and methods: Observational, retrospective study in patients with AI in our endocrino...

Introduction: Clinically non-functioning pituitary adenomas (NFPA) are heterogeneous group. Some previous research has found that this type of pituitary adenomas may be smaller and have better prognostic in men. The aim of this study is to analyze if there are gender-related differences in NFPA.Material and methods: Retrospective study of patients with NFPA followed up in regional hospitals (Community of Madrid, Spain). All NFPA had molecular analysis. T...