Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Generously supported by IPSEN)-->Prolactin (PRL) -secreting adenomas are about 40% of all pituitary adenomas. Their clinical symptoms are mainly related to development of secondary hypogonadism and/or tumor mass effects. Dopamine agonists (DA) are first-line drugs for prolactinoma patients due to their effectiveness in normalizing PRL levels and shrinking tumour mass. Surgery is an option for DA failure or tumour mass e...

Background: Poorer control of risk factors for cardiovascular disease (cvd) has been reported in diabetic women compared with men.Objective: To investigate whether control of diabetes and risk factors for cvd differ between sexes in a cohort of diabetic patients monitored at an outpatient endocrinology clinic from 2004 till 2014.Design: Observational, retrospective cohort study.Patients and methods: A cohort ...

Background: Recent reports suggest that female sex could be an indicator of better response to liraglutide in patients included in clinical trials.Aim: To compare efficacy of liraglutide in women and men with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), in real clinical practice.Patients and methods: Our study included 116 patients with T2DM and obesity (BMI >30) attending outpatient clinic, which initiated with liraglutide (0.6 mg/daily f...

Objective: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is often associated with severe mineral bone loss and increased risk of fractures. The objective of this study was to assess the bone mineral density (BMD) in patients with AN and its relationship with different anthropometrics, clinical and hormonal parameters.Patients and methods: We evaluated 47 women with AN according to criteria of DSM-IV. The anthropometrics variables measured were: weight (kg) height (m), BMI (kg/m...

Introduction and objective: Prophylactic central lymph node dissection (CLND) in patients with suspected papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) without evident lymph node metastasis (LNM), remains debatable. We propose to evaluate whether BRAF V600E mutation presence, could help to identify patients at risk for LMN.Methods: Retrospective study of patients with diagnosis of PTC, who underwent total thyroidectomy during 2002 and 2013 (n: 256) in our hospi...