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ea0049ep984 | Pituitary - Clinical | ECE2017

Invasive macroprolactinomas and its response to treatment in male patients

Abreu Alin , Hernandez Jose , Velasco Margarita , Triana Pablo , Castano Orlando

Introduction: Prolactin-producing pituitary adenomas are the most common pituitary tumors in clinical practice. In men they are more aggressive and their response to pharmacological treatment is unknown.Objective: Describe the clinical characteristics and response according to the treatment of a group of male patients with invasive macroprolactinomas.Materials and methods: A retrospective descriptive study, a series of cases, in 30...

ea0056p993 | Clinical case reports - Thyroid/Others | ECE2018

Thyroiditis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, related to rituximab

Bedoya Vanessa , Miguel Osorio Luis , Santrich Melanie , Castano Orlando , Eugenia Casanova Maria , Velasco Margarita , Abreu Alin

Introduction: Rituximab is indicated in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which through the Fab domain, binds to the CD20 antigen on the surface of B lymphocytes, generating lysis of B cells, present in the thyroid, by cytotoxicity dependent on complement, as a result of the binding of C1q, mediated by the Fc domain, destroying the thyroid follicles, by infiltration of inflammatory cells (1) (2).Objective: Describe the characteristics of pa...