Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Nonfasting duration is much longer than fasting time in a day. Although there is a few reports on the importance of postprandial triacylglycerol (TG) on cardiovascular outcome, TG variation after meal is one of main obstacle of clinical trial. The purpose of this study is to determine effects of a 6-week period of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on fasting and postprandial TG and metabolic parameters in response to standard test meals.Me...

Introduction: Subacute thyroiditis (SAT) is most common cause of painful thyroiditis. Although prednisolone at 40 mg/d has been preferred as initial dose for moderate to severe SAT, there have also been other recommendations as 25–60 mg/day in many reports. We retrospectively assessed the effect of steroid dose on the SAT.Methods: We examined 132 patients with SAT who visited our endocrinology clinic at least three times between January 2005 and Dec...

Background: The optimal initial surgical extent for medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) remains controversial. Aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of serum calcitonin and carcinoembryonic antigen(CEA) to predict the extent of surgery needed in the lateral neck in patients with MTC.Methods: This retrospective multicenter cohort study included data from patients with MTC surgically treated in the 6 tertiary medical centers in Korea from 1996 to 202...