Endocrine Abstracts

IntroductionSodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) are a new class of oral antidiabetic drugs used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Recently, the SGLT2i dapagliflozin was approved for use in type 1 diabetes (T1DM) as an add-on to insulin therapy.Material and methodsWe conducted a retrospective observational study which included demographic and clinical-analytical data from 16 patient...

Introduction: Diabetes is increasing its prevalence as an enhancement of treatment options arises and mortality declines. Pancreas transplantation has been postulated as one of them, specifically indicated for cases with end-stage renal failure where kidney transplantation is required besides. It has been analysed whether there is a clinical benefit in terms of quality of life (QoL) in patients undergoing pancreas-kidney transplantation (PKT) compared to dyalisis population or...

Objectives: To assess whether the degree of heterogeneity of thyroid nodules defined by their elastographic characteristics is related to the cytological diagnosis and ultrasound classification of risk of malignancy.Material and Methods: Observational, prospective study. 101 thyroid nodules were analysed by quantitative elastographic analysis (shear-wave), measuring the stiffness of the lesion by global elastography and its standard deviation (s.d.</...