Endocrine Abstracts

Patients suffering from critical illness usually exhibit a characteristic functional state of thyrotropic feedback control that is referred to as non-thyroidal illness syndrome (NTIS). Today, there are still important questions unsolved, e.g. regarding the interdependence of immunological and endocrine functions in critical illness.Therefore, in the context of the prospective AQUA FONTIS study we investigated 164 patients that were treated in medical, su...