Endocrine Abstracts

Recently, many cases with hypoglycemia who take oral hypoglycemic agents and/or insulin therapy are carried to the emergency room in our hospital due to hypoglycemia. Pharmacotherapy for patients with diabetes mellitus occasionally can causes severe hypoglycemic attack. In this study, we investigated 69 type 2 diabetics on clinical features (26 outpatients of our hospital, 43 outpatients of other clinics) among 100 patients who were carried to the emergency room due to hypogly...

Introduction: According to the guideline for medical treatment of Graves’ disease by the Japan Thyroid Association in 2011, discontinuation of antithyroid drug is recommended when normal thyroid functions have been maintained for a certain period (≥6 months) after treatment with a minimum maintenance dose (mentioned below). We prospectively studied the remission rates in the patients with Graves’ disease.Methods: The subjects were 108 pat...