Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Suboptimal glycaemic control in hospital inpatients is related to poor clinical outcomes and longer hospital stay. The aims of this study were to document the prevalence and severity of hypo- and hyperglycaemia in medical inpatients and to evaluate aspects of patient management and staff proficiency regarding glucose management.Methods: We performed a retrospective review of 21 381 capillary blood glucose results in 1496 unique patients on 26...

Recent data suggest that critically-ill medical patients might not obtain as much benefit from insulin therapy as cardiothoracic patients. This may be because medical patients are more insulin resistant. We have investigated this in both groups.10 medical patients (age 67.0±4.4 y; 7M:3F, BMI 24.0±1.7 kg/m2; studied within 36 hours of admission to the ICU) and 7 post-operative cardiothoracic patients (age 71.4±3.8 y; 5M:2F, BMI 2...

Introduction: Duodenal mucosal resurfacing (DMR) is a novel therapy for T2DM. It involves the hydrothermal ablation of up to 14 cm of the duodenal mucosa through a specially designed endoscopic catheter. The procedure is performed under general anaesthesia, patients are discharged the same day and it does not involve the implantation of a foreign body. Cohort studies have demonstrated that DMR induces meaningful hbA1c reductions of 0.9–1.4% by 3 months that are largely m...