Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Imaging of brown adipose tissue (BAT) is currently performed with combined positron emission tomography and x-ray computed tomography (PET-CT). Recent studies showed promising imaging features of BAT with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) through modified 2-point-dixon (mDixon) water-fat separation method. The aim of this study was to establish a reliable MRI-procedure for quantification of BAT volumes and weighted fat-fraction (WFF) and to correlate them to cold-in...

Objectives: Graves’ disease (GD) is characterized by variable disease severity at diagnosis and variable disease activity during follow-up. Antithyroid drugs (ATD) such as carbimazole (CMZ), methimazole or propylthiouracil are the first-line treatment. Current guidelines recommend a range of ATD starting dose according to GD severity, followed by dose titration until euthyroidism is reached and a maintenance dose for a specific patient is established. As thyroid hormones ...