Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Recent studies have found hypopituitarism (HP) to be a common complication of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). In Iceland most patients with moderate TBI and all patients with severe TBI and SAH are transferred to Landspitali University Hospital (LSH). The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of HP following TBI/SAH in Iceland, 3 and 12 months after the incidence.Methods: All adult patients with mode...

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) can cause long-term morbidity and death. Studies indicate that this may partially be due to transient or chronic hypopituitarism (HP). Guidelines recommend screening for HP in moderate and severe TBI patients (TBIp), Glasgow coma score (GCS) 9–12 and <9 respectively. The aim of this study was to evaluate markers of severity and physiologic changes as predictive factors for HP following TBI and ...

Introduction: Primary aldosteronism (PA) is an important cause of hypertension. Adrenal hyperplasia (AH) and aldosterone-producing adrenocortical adenoma (APA) are considered the most frequent causes of PA. Histopathological analysis of unilateral PA has been difficult since no clear morphological criteria existed for defining aldosterone-producing cells. Recently, the distribution of adrenal cells forming aldosterone and cortisol has been studied by using specific monoclonal ...