Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Both GH deficiency (GHD) and male hypogonadism are thought to be associated with an increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality which is at least partly attributed to higher Insulin resistance. Potential reversibility of increased risk factors after gonadal replacement was assessed in this study, by comparing replaced and unreplaced hypogonadal men with GHD.Subjects and methods: Seventy-seven hypogonadal adult male patients with GHD ha...

Hemangiomas are the rare cases of adrenal incidentalomas, especially in their bilateral forms. Case study: male patient, 65 year, presented after the pain in right upper hemi abdomen, lasted half year. On ultrasonography there was an enlarged right suprarenal gland. Patient was on routine abdominal ultrasonography, with undetectable suprarenal glands, one year before. We concluded that something new happened in the meantime. On NMR the right suprarenal gland was 6.2×4.7 c...

Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) impairs bone mass and strength. Androgen deficient men exhibit impaired bone mass, but the extent to which testosterone replacement can prevent this remains disputable. The aim of this study was to assess whether androgen deficiency presents an additional risk factor for bone health in male patients with GHD and whether this is correctable by testosterone substitution.A group of 81 male patients with GHD, not receiving GH ...

Somatuline Autogel® 120 mg (SATG, Ipsen, Sweeden) is a high dose sustained release aqueous gel formulation, supplied in a prefiled syringe and given by deep subcutaneous injection. The aim of this cross-sectional hospital based study, approved by the local ethical committee, was to investigate efficacy and tolerability of SATG given every 4 weeks in patients with active acromegaly.Twenty patients (9f, 11m) aged 42.9±17.8 (range 17&#1...

Introduction: Liraglutide exerts cardio-protective effects beyond of those on glucose metabolism, affecting several cardio-metabolic parameters, such as subclinical atherosclerosis. However, it is not known if those effects differ in the long-term between pre-elderly and elderly subjects with type-2 diabetes (T2DM).Methods: We included 135 subjects with T2DM divided in 2 groups: i) 71 pre-elderly subjects (46 men and 25 women, 55±7 years), and ii) 6...

Spontaneous subarahnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a recently identified risk factor for hipopituitarism, especially growth hormone (GH) and corticotroph deficiencies. The aim of this study is to perform the initial screening procedure to identify the patients with increased risk of neuroendocrine dysfunction after SAH in the chronic phase and to identify the possible predictor(s) for neuroendocrine dysfunction. Ninety-one patients (30 males, 61 females), age between 19 and 69 years ...