Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Studies suggest that diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with greater risk of developing severe forms of COVID-19 and mortality.Aims: To compare clinical characteristics and outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with and without DM.Methods: A single-center, retrospective, observational study included adult patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 treated at VUHSK between 2020-01-01 and 2021-03-31. Patients were...

Background: Currently, the European Society of Endocrinology guidelines asserted against additional imaging during follow-up (FUP) in patients with non-functioning adrenal masses <4 cm in size with clear benign features on imaging studies. Our analysed literature data suggests that an increase (minimum 1 cm) in an initially benign adrenal mass during follow-up occurs in 3.5–20% of patients with adrenal incidentalomas.Aim: To analyse the change i...