Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The widespread use of highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has drastically improved the life expectancy of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. However, many of these drugs show multiple interactions with other treatments; protease inhibitors (PI) are especially troublesome as they interact with the hepatic cytochrome P450. There have been previous reports of both Cushing’s syndrome and adrenal insufficiency in patients treated...

Background: The increased risk for fractures in type 2 diabetes mellitus despite higher bone density is unexplained. Trabecular bone score (TBS) is a novel texture index related to bone microarchitecture and it is independent of bone mineral density (BMD). The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between TBS, BMD and body composition in patients with New-Onset Diabetes after transplantation (NODAT).Methods: In a cross-sectional study, TB...

Objectives: Prognosis of differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) is usually good, but even so a proportion of the patients develop recurrences and eventually die of the disease. The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical and histopathological features of patients with DTC in our center and to identify prognostic factors in this group of patients.Patients and methods: We reviewed, retrospectively, 213 patients (184 females and 29 males, mean age 48....