Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The prevalence of adrenal incidentalomas has increased. The malignancy is determined by radiographic appearance and, secondly, by the size. Adenomas manifest a low attenuation on computed tomography (CT) (<10 Hounsfield Units(HU)).The cut-off point of 10 HU has been proposed to discriminate benign and malignant lesions.Objective: To determine if the cut-off point of 10 HU is useful in clinical practice to discriminate benign and malignant...

Background: AMH represents a marker of ovarian reserve and is used in monitoring the effects of gonadotoxic drugs. In PCOS is higher and is an indirect marker of hyperandrogenism. In transsexual man(TM), high prevalence of PCOS is described and AMH provide information about ovarian reserve after exposure to testosterone.Objective: To assess the prevalence of PCOS in young TM previously to testosterone treatment, study the evolution of AMH levels and diff...

Introduction: The aim of our study was to determine the frequency of hypogonadism (H) in males with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and its relation with erectile dysfunction (ED) and obesity.Methods: We studied 107 diabetic males who came successively to an Endocrine consultation. The presence of H was determined by total testosterone (T) with an immunofluerescence method and free testosterone (fT) calculated with Vermeulen’s equation, defining H if T<2 ...