Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: The aim of this prospective study is to assess if there is any correlation between parathyroid hyperplasia detected by ultrasound and variables connected with secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 5, treated by dialysis and to determine the PTH level, above which the hyperplasia of parathyroid glands could be visualized.Methods: Thirty-one patients (14 men and 17 women) with CKD stage 5, treated by ...

Objectives: The aim of the study was to determine different types of thyroid nodules according to their elasticity and to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of strain elastography in detection of thyroid cancer. 114 thyroid nodules in 84 patients were examined prospectively with conventional B-mode US, color Doppler, strain elastography (SE) and fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB). 72 nodules in 50 patients were submitted to surgery and histologically assessed. For final diagno...

Introduction: Despite available evidence for a relationship between bone health and obesity, the results of clinical trials remain conflicting. Thus, we conducted a cross-sectional study to analyze possible associations between waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI) and body weight (BW) with bone health in postmenopausal women.Materials and Methods: The study included 84 women from Northeastern Bulgaria. Their mean age was 60.54±7.07 years,...

Aim: The aim of this retrospective study is to assess the lipid disturbances in patients with autoimmune thyroiditis.Methods: 1380 patients with autoimmune thyroiditis, hospitalized in Endocrinology department of ‘St. Marina’ Hospital, Varna for the period of 2004–2015 year, participated in the study. After excluding conditions influencing lipid profile, 771 patients remained for analysis (36 men and 735 women, mean age 49.81±13.98 ye...

We report three generations of a family with MEN-2 A characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance and virtually 100% penetrance.The proband, 35-year-old man, was diagnosed and operated for pheochromocytoma of the right adrenal gland and medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) with lymph node metastasis in 2009. His mother turned out to be operated for bilateral pheochromocytoma at the age of 47 (in 1994) and had had a thyroid nodule. She died at the age of ...