Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The economic burden of obesity on healthcare systems is increasing. Bariatric surgery leads to considerable weight loss and health improvement. However, this surgery is costly and doubts about its affordability have been raised. Few studies have assessed outcomes such as drug use and costs after bariatric surgery. The aim of this study was to evaluate drug consumption and costs before and after bariatric surgery.Methods: Retrospectively, da...

Introduction: Primary hyperaldosteronism (PA) is a disturbance caused by the autonomous production of aldosterone by the adrenal gland. The most frequent causes are due to bilateral supra-renal gland hyperplasia and aldesterone producing adenoma. It is most frequent amongst women aged between 30 and 50 years of age. It is clinically characterised by hypertension (HTN), resistant to therapy. Hypokalaemia, which is known as a ‘classical marker’ is found in less than a ...

Introduction: The pheochromocytomas are rare neuroendocrine tumors that can occur sporadically or, in about 30% of cases, in the context of family syndromes. Ten percent are malignant. Neurofibromatosis type 1 is an autosomal dominant disease that is associated with the occurrence of these tumors. Pheochromocytoma appears at 0.1– 5.7% of patients with neurofibromatosis type 1, and are usually solitary and benign lesions.Clinical case: A 50-year-old ...

Introduction: Bariatric surgery (BS) candidates display several nutritional deficiencies that can aggravate after surgery. Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors with several disturbed metabolic pathways. Therefore, individuals with MS submitted to BS are probably more prone to nutritional deficiencies.Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of nutritional deficiencies and eventual differences between BS candidates with and wit...

Background: Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) has effective results on weight loss, which should result from fat mass loss and efforts should be made to preserve lean mass. Few studies have evaluated body composition (BC) changes after SG for periods >2 years.Objective: To investigate the impact of SG on weight and BC, comparing by gender.Materials and methods: Retrospectively, databases of patients who underwent SG between 2011 and 2013...

Background: Gastric Bypass surgery (Bypass) is recognized as the ultimate metabolic surgery. The success in type 2 Diabetes (DM2) remission documented in patients submitted to Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy (Sleeve) made questionable the hypothesis that this restrictive surgery has beneficial metabolic effects.Main goal: Comparing the Bypass and Sleeve’s efficacy in DM2 remission.Methods: Retrospective study of 112 diabetic patie...