Endocrine Abstracts

Neuroendocrine tumours are slow growing and could be mistaken for other more malignant tumours with poorer prognosis. Their secretory profile may alter with time. The importance of awareness of these tumours and their clinical behaviour is illustrated by the case of a 78-year-old woman who presented with recurrent fasting hypoglycaemia.The patient had been diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma a year previously on the basis of radiographic ...

Aim: There is emerging evidence that survivors of BMT not only suffer long term endocrine sequelae, but also have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The UKCCSG guidelines suggest that BMT survivors should be monitored for cardiac and lung toxicities of previous treatments using cardiac ECHOs and pulmonary function tests (PFTs). We aimed to examine body composition, aerobic fitness, ECHOs and PFTs in adolescent and young adult survivors on GHTx....

Background: There is emerging evidence that BMT survivors not only suffer long term endocrine sequelae, but also have increased risk of cardiovascular disease and T2DM. We examined body composition and cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors in adolescent and young adult survivors.Method: We enrolled 36 BMT survivors (20 male). Seven were pre-pubertal, 9 pubertal, and 20 post-pubertal. We measured body composition by DEXA scan and BMI, and fasted lipid...