Endocrine Abstracts

Background: In Graves’ disease, immune cellular mechanisms and cytokine release, as well as auto-antibody production found in the serum, most likely contribute to the development of thyroid eye disease (TED). Biosynthesis of neopterin is closely associated with activation of the cellular immune system and could be a valuable marker of the severity of the disease.Objectives: To assess whether serum neopterin concentrations in patients with TED are a ...

The incidence of GNT appears to be increasing, what can be explained by the increased detection caused by the common use of the endoscopy and the pervasive use of acid suppressive therapy leading to enterochromatofine like cells proliferation. There are numerous new diagnostic/therapeutic GNT methods in use like: EUS, SRS, somatostatin therapy and 90Y/177Lu-DOTA-TATE radiotherapy.Materials and methods: In 1998–2007, 25 patients were diagnosed with t...