Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: One of the main difficulties in the study of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs) is their wide heterogeneity and variable outcome. Several potential influencing factors on patient survival have been recently identified. These factors could help predict patients’ prognosis.Objectives: Analysis of long-term survival of our GEP-NETs cohort according to the presence of metastatic disease, tumor grade, age, sex, tumor fu...

Introduction: The prevalence and comorbidities of NAFLD in CD are unknown. There is only one study wich set the prevalence of NAFLD by CT images in 20%1.Objectives: Describe the prevalence of NAFLD and fibrosis in CD and analize predictive biomarkers of NAFLDMethods: Transversal descriptive study. 31 patients with CD; 11 active, 20 cured. Women 24 (77%), men 7 (23%). 54 years mean age. NAFLD was valorated by Hepatic Stea...

Introduction: Many studies showed that H. pylori infection could be an independent predictor for insulin resistance and could regulate metabolism and body weight.Aim: To evaluate changes in metabolism induced by an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) before and after antibiotic eradication treatment in patients colonized by H. pylori.Materials and method: Prospective case-controlled study with a sample of patients colonized by H. py...