Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: According to American Medical Association Health literacy means a group of skills, including reading and basic math skills that allow smooth functioning in the health care system. Despite the universality of schools in Europe, the problem of secondary or functional illiteracy did not only exist but seems to be growing. This is also a great ethical problem, because the illiteracy makes, e.g. fictive so basic patients right as informed consent. The reasons for this...

Introduction: Hundred years ago Harvey Cushing attempt first human pituitary transplantation. This operation, in different modifications, was performed in the next 50 years, but now is used rather only in animal experiment. The problem of effective therapy of hypopituitarism, other that substitution, is however still open. That encouraged us to present a patient 50 years after pituitary xenotransplantation.Case: A 75-year-old woman was admitted to hospit...