Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenocortical cancer (ACC) is a rare and challenging malignancy for clinicians. The cornerstone of imaging for the diagnosis of ACC or re-evaluation of known ACC is thin-collimation computed tomography (CT) without contrast and after early and late washout of contrast medium. Although size and shape of adrenal lesions must be taken into consideration to differentiate adenomas from other adrenal lesions, it is pre- and post-contrast adrenal lesion density, measured in Hounsefi...

Aim: To measure interstitial cortisol obtained by adipose tissue microdialysis (MD) as well as serum total and free cortisol in 31 mechanically ventilated patients upon sepsis onset (days 1 and 2). MD tissue glucose, pyruvate, lactate, and glycerol were also measured (as markers of altered or disrupted local energy production).Methods: The Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) on day 1 and the sequential organ failure assessment (SOF...