Endocrine Abstracts

A 33-year-old Belgian woman was referred in June 2006 to our Metabolic Bone Diseases Clinic for recent vertebral fractures. X-Rays showed a 3-level severe compression fractures with collapse of the superior endplates of D11, D12 and L1. DXA showed significantly decreased lumbar spine (LS) and femoral neck (FN) Z-scores, at −3.1 and −2.5, respectively.She was complaining of severe back pain, muscle weakness, cognitive dysfunction, anxiety and ...

Osteoporosis is a major public health problem that is responsible for a considerable morbidity, mortality and health care costs. Evaluation of fracture risk is essential to select patients who will benefit most of interventional strategies. Most prospective cohort studies, with fracture outcomes, rely on participant self-report as the main or only source of information on fracture incidence. Systematic validation by screening of medical files is time-consuming, costly and almo...

Introduction: Osteoporosis is characterized by a low bone mass and a microarchiterctural disruption. Ageing and estrogen deficiency are the two most important factors for developing osteoporosis. With advanced age the balance between bone formation and resorption becomes progressively negative and non-bone factors contribute to the increased fracture risk with advancing age. Osteoporotic fractures constitute a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. Post-menopau...

Introduction: Tuberculosis is an insidious disease and may be diagnosed after it afected many organs.Case presentation: We present the case of a 56 years old female, who followed antituberculosis treatment in 2003 for pulmonary tuberculosis and during the treatment developed acute renal failure and for this reason the treatment was stopped. During the evaluations a left kidney tumor was detected. Left nephrectomy was performed in 2003 (HP examination &#1...

Aim of the work: In patients with differentiated thyroid cancer, the basic goal of the therapy is to improve overall and disease-specific survival, reduce the risk of persistent/recurrent disease while minimizing treatment-related morbidity and unnecessary therapy. In 2015, the American Thyroid Association (ATA) published evidence-based guidelines for the staging and management of differentiated thyroid cancer, including the possibility of avoiding systematic complementary 131...

In large population-based epidemiological studies of osteoporotic fractures, self-report is an important way of obtaining information. However, this method is subject to errors of recall and may result in misclassification of fracture status. Surprisingly, the accuracy of self-reported fractures has only rarely been assessed. The purpose of our study was to assess the accuracy of self-reported fractures in the FRISBEE cohort (Brussels, Belgium) of 3560 postmenopausal, aged 60&...