Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: Although some studies presented good outcome of Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) for Papillary Thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC), its benefit has not been fully elucidated. The purpose of our study was to report the results from a prospective study investigating efficacy and safety of RFA in active surveillance candidate for low-risk PTMC. Materials and Methods: Since November 2018, RFA has been prospectively performed in active surveillance candidates...

Background: The association between thyroid cancer and skeletal outcomes has not been thoroughly investigated. We aimed to investigate the risk of osteoporotic fractures in patients with thyroid cancer compared with a matched control group.Methods: This retrospective cohort study included 2,514 patients with thyroid cancer and 75,420 matched controls from the Korean National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort (NHIS-NSC, 2006-2019). Rates of ...

Objectives: Although antithyroid drugs (ATD) offer potent therapeutic benefits for treating Graves’ disease (GD), they can occasionally lead to rare, potentially life-threatening adverse events (AEs), such as agranulocytosis or toxic hepatitis. As the incidence and characteristics of these life-threatening AEs in Korea have not been widely investigated, we aimed to identify the real-world features of ATD-related severe AEs.Method: We analyzed 19,975...

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence and incidence of thyroid nodules, and associated risk factors in population-based prospective cohort study.Methods: We investigated the prevalence of thyroid nodules using the data of 3,104 adults aged over 50 years, who were enrolled in the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study and performed thyroid ultrasonography (US) in 2011-2012. Individuals have been performed US every 2 years, during...