Endocrine Abstracts

Context: Bilateral adrenalectomy (BADX) has become an important treatment option of Cushing’s syndrome (CS), especially when other treatments have failed. Long-term outcome is not well known.Objective: To evaluate long-term quality of life (QoL) of patients who underwent BADX for CS compared to other therapeutic options.Methods: Fourty five patients with all cause CS were identified: 23 patients had BADX and 22 underwent one o...

Introduction: In the era of personalized patient management in acromegaly, transsphenoidal surgery remains a treatment of choice in cases where surgical cure can be expected. In order to better target these patients and to assess the risk of persistence/progression disease, we evaluated clinical, hormonal, radiological and pathological predictors of surgical outcome in acromegaly.Methods: A single-institution retrospective study from 2009 to 2015 was per...

Objective: The management of pituitary apoplexy, a rare emergency neuroendocrine condition, is controversial. The aim of the present study was to compare the outcome of patients with pituitary apoplexy managed either by a conservative or surgical approach.Methods: A retrospective cohort study including patients diagnosed between 2007 and 2018 in a tertiary French university hospital. Pituitary apoplexy score was retrospectively applied in a perspective o...