Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Metastatic or locally advanced prostate cancer is treated with surgical or medical hormone therapy. Preservation of the patient’s quality of life is a major parameter that influences the management at this stage. Comparative studies between both types of hormone therapy that consider the patient’s quality of life are almost nonexistent. The objective of our study is to evaluate the impact of medical and surgical castration on the quality of life in pati...

Introduction and objectives: The most important risk factors of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are diabetes and hypertension. In addition, obesity and metabolic syndrome (MetS) are independent predictive factors of CKD. The objective of our study was to investigate if MetS affects renal function of patients who underwent partial nephrectomy for localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC).Patients and methods: 50 cases of T1N0M0 RCC patients who underwent partial ...