Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: With the increasing survival rates from cancer the focus has been shifting towards the adverse sequelae, occurring both acutely, or developing as late effects, deriving from its multimodality treatment.Aim: We investigated the occurrence of thyroid complications in patients with haematological malignancies treated with chemotherapy, radiotherapy involving the neck and/or haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), referred to our endoc...

Background: Testicular ultrasound (US) is routinely employed in the evaluation of reproductive and sexual function. However, its use for characteristics other than testicular volume is hampered by a lack of information on the prognostic value of its findings, that to date have only been incorporated in a score proposed by Lenz et al. in 1993.Objectives: We sought to explore whether testicular US examination can predict spermatogenesis and provid...

Background: Burned-out tumours (BOT) are rare clinical entities which present with no primary testicular lesion but distant metastases. We report a difficult management of BOT.Case Presentation: A 22-year-old male presented to ER with acute low back pain, severe vomiting and sweating. In past medical history: bilateral orchidopexy for cryptorchidism. Abdominal CT scan displayed two retroperitoneal masses of 35 and 20 mm. The patient was discharged with s...

Background: The increase use of abdominal imaging have given rise in incidental discovery of adrenal masses. We report a case of a localized Castleman’s Disease(CD), mimicking an adrenal mass.Case report: A 29-year-old woman was found to have a 6 cm, well-circumscribed and hypoechoic, right adrenal incidentaloma during an abdominopelvic ultrasonography. The CT scan confirmed a suprarenal mass with heterogenous contrast enhancement. Adrenal gland cou...

Background: Bilateral testicular germ cell tumors (B-TCGT) are reported as rare findings (incidence 1-8%) and can be distinguish in synchronous (sB-TCGT) (recurrence within 3 months) and metachronous (mB-TCGT) (recurrence after 3 months). Risk factors of relapse are still underexplored. The aim of our study was to identify clinical, biochemical and radiological risk factors for the onset of a second tumor in a wide cohort of TGCT patients. Materials and ...

Introduction: Immune-Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICI) are frequently associated with thyroid-related adverse events (AE). Several studies analyzed thyroid disfunctions during ICI therapy, but many aspects remain to be characterized, especially for the most recent anti-PD-1 drugs. The aim of this study is to determine incidence and characteristics of PD-1 inhibitors associated thyroid dysfunction.Methods: We retrospectively analyzed data of patients with advan...

Introduction: Adrenal Insufficiency (AI) is characterized by absolute or relative deficiency of glucocorticoids and adrenal androgen precursors. Patients with AI show an impaired quality of life, metabolic status, immune function and dysregulated circadian genes. Data on sexual function are scarce and often contradictory. The aims of the present study are to evaluate sexual dysfunction (SD) in women and men patients with AI and to investigate the effects of restoring a more ph...

Background: Experimental studies on Klinefelter syndrome (KS) reported increased intratesticular testosterone (T) levels coexisting with reduced circulating levels. Abnormalities in testicular microcirculation have been claimed; however, no studies investigated in vivo testicular blood flow dynamics in humans with KS.Objective: To analyze the testicular microcirculation in KS by contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) and correlate vascular par...