Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Several previous studies showed a reduced quality of life (QoL) in patients with Addison`s disease, but only few data on the potential influencing factors are available so far.Methods: We determined current QoL in 200 patients with Addison`s disease using AddiQoL-36, a questionnaire developed in collaboration with the European consortium Euradrenal. Furthermore, data about symptoms, diagnosis and medication were collected by questionnaires ...

Context: Vitamin D deficiency has been identified as a risk factor for a number of autoimmune diseases including type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis.Objective: We hypothesized that low levels of vitamin D are related to the early stages of autoimmune thyroid disease.Design: Two case-control studies were performed. Study A: cases were subjects from the Amsterdam AITD cohort (euthyroid women who had 1st or 2nd degree relatives wit...

Introduction: We report the unusual case of a young patient with micturition induced headache, in which contrast-enhanced ultrasound helped to assure diagnosis of paravesical paraganglioma.Case: An 18-year-old male presented with attacks of severe headache lasting several minutes and occurring strictly after micturition. Hypertensive values up to 200/105 mmHg were detected subsequent to nearly every micturition while values before and some minutes after ...