Endocrine Abstracts

The aim of this study was comparison of sensitivity of subtraction parathyroid scintigraphy (SBPS), vs. two-phase parathyroid scintigraphy (2FPS), related to histological type of hyperfunctioning parathyroid tissue.Materials and methods: Fifty patients, thirty with primary hyperparathyroidism and twenty on dialysis and secondary hyperparathyroidism underwent parathyroid scintigraphy (PS) before surgery. Static scintigrams of neck and chest were performed...

What happens if the prescribed medication makes the patient ‘worse’ than he was before comint to the doctor? Putting aside the world wide accepted JNC clasiffication of hypertension, we colud consider the following:The ‘cat-walk’ (moderate) hypertension (<150/95 mmHg) 2. Pts with serious hypertension with symptoms 3. Pts with seerious hypertension without symptoms.Having moderate hypertension and no side eff...