Endocrine Abstracts

Human autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD), mainly including Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) and Graves’ disease (GD), are characterized by reactivity to self-thyroid antigens. Regulatory T cells have an important role in immune tolerance to self-antigens. We have reported that different regulatory T cell subsets are abundant in the peripheral blood and in inflamed thyroid tissue in AITD and are able to synthesize the immunoregulatory cytokines IL-10 and TGF-beta. However...

Objective: Combination with cabergoline may offer additional benefits to acromegalic patients on pegvisomant monotherapy. We evaluated the safety and efficacy profile of this combination and investigated the determinants of response.Design: An observational, retrospective, cross-sectional, registry-based study.Patients and methods: Fourteen acromegalic patients (9 females), who were partially resistant to somatostatin analogs and o...

Background: Semaglutide is a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1-RA) whose role as a second-line treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) has significantly increased. It has demonstrated cardiovascular safety and superiority in terms of glycaemic control and weight loss, compared to other GLP-1-RAs. The most common side effects are mild gastrointestinal, but it may also cause renal failure secondary to dehydration and an increased risk of diabetic retinopa...

Introduction: Funding of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) has been established by Madrid Health Service for adults with type1 Diabetes Mellitus (DM) who meet specific criteria. This has brought to lightthe need foran increasedinvestment in care time. In our Division, a structured training program has been established, consisting of 2 training sessions (TS); the first one based on basic contents to initiateFlash-CGM, and the second one, more intensive and targeted, focused o...

Purpose: To evaluate differences in the prevalence of autonomous cortisol secretion (ACS) and related comorbidities between patients with unilateral and bilateral adrenal incidentalomas (AI).Methods: Seven Spanish institutions participated in this institutional review board-approved retrospective study for patients with AI. 342 patients with one or more AI ≥ 1 cm evaluated by participating physicians between 2001 and 2019 were subject to inclusion....

Retinoic acid (RA) treatment has been used in the last decade for redifferentiation of metastatic thyroid cancer that have lost radioiodine uptake (RIup) with heterogeneous results.Aim: To evaluate the improvement of RIup after a course of RA treatment.Method: Retrospective analysis of 29 patients with radioiodine negative metastatic disease (17 men /12 women; 22 papillary, 4 follicular and 3 oncocytic tumours). RA was given at a d...

PurposeTo assess the risk of developing hypercortisolism and/or tumor growth in non-functioning adrenal incidentalomas (NFAIs) during follow-up.MethodsSeven Spanish institutions participated in this retrospective study for patients with AIs. 1097 patients with one or more AIs ≥ 1 cm evaluated by participating physicians between 2013 and 2020 were subject to inclusion. Patients with missing values in the...